Keep up with the news by installing RT’s extension for . Never miss a story with this clean and simple app that delivers the latest headlines to you.

 

In arms way: India's 'hollow' army to buy in bulk

April 03, 2012 16:15

As a recently-leaked letter scandal reveals the Indian army, one of the biggest in the world, is virtually “naked”, foreign weapons producers cast longing looks at the country’s never-shrinking military budget: over $100 billion to be spent by 2020.

View full story

Comments (27) Sort by: Highest rating Oldest first Newest first

Tayler (unregistered) 16.06.2012 16:10

Sadly, I must support even greater military spending by India.  India needs to pour every drop it can into it's nuclear ICMBs, and Navy.  It appears that our nation doesn't honor international treaties and wages wars of aggression.  If the US can, it will - eventually destroy all other nations on Earth to obtain what it wants - including India.  There really are no friendships - just human nature - based upon greed as the sole focus.  So buy every weapon you can as soon as you can.  One day India may find itself allied with Russia and China to defend itself against the spread of the anglo-american empire and its unquenchable thirst for natural resources.  I love my nation - and the people - however - since the end of the cold war we have seen our people murdered in false flag operations to further the ambitions of oil companies and arms dealers - and foreign nations such as Israel.  So in this case if I were Russia and China I'd be selling weapons to India in hopes of establishing a long range defense against the US global ambition of world domination and control - not for freedom - not for democracy - but for the multi billionaires who will stop at nothing to control every spot of land upon this Earth no matter how many millions and even billions they will kill in the process.  And to US and Israeli MINDERS - this is the response to your treachery of 9-11 - you have done this - turned a faithful citizen into a person that can no longer trust the utter evil which has slithered its way into power and is waging war against our very society on your behalf.

+1

Undo

avatar (unregistered) 17.04.2012 19:29

but the indian traitor elite class has sold itself to the antirussian clique of anglosaxon scumbags led by britian and america-the foremost enemies of India.
manmohan singh is a n agent of britiana nd america-in any other country this unelected despicable  like manmohan singh would have been tortured to death for treachery but not in india (and not in russia either).

manm ophan sighn is a blot on face of india and he has destroyed indorussian freindship. ask him to request his masters the americans to rein in Pakistan-why is he barking at wrong place?
i am ahsmed to be an inidan being such ungreateful nation despite all that russia has done well for india.
irrerspect ive of what Russia after dissolution of soviet union did(in fact during yeltsin era americans pressed russia not to give so many things to India)  it is a fact that the Indian elite =class has been traitor and ungrateful to Russia for Russian  help in making india self sufficnet and even in protecting indian sovernity, this manmohna sigh has single handedly made sure that india takes order from london and washington-he is a small time functionary o f the world bank run by Americans to loot countries like india and russia.  manmohans igh is a fraud who follows chiacago school of economis frauds which has caused misery to  the third world in last 20 years and made millions of farmers in India commit suicide.
this man,mohan singh must be eliminated soon to save India-he is a shame on the name of India -such a fraud with no personality no leadership and no ability to speak coherently is a shame on india; besides he is a traitor for which he should be put into a cage like doen tomubarak of Egypt and then two dogs should be left inside the cage to tear him apart live.
NOW WE KNOW HOW THE AGENDA OF THIS TRAITOR MANMOHAN SINGH HAS BEEN FOLLOWED TO THE LETTER THOUGH HE IS NOT A LEADER OF PARTY OR COUNTRY AOR OF MEN.

+6

Undo

avatar (unregistered) 17.04.2012 19:28


Manmohan is a facilitator of scamsters & fraudsters. That he personally does not indulge in corruption is immaterial since he learnt a lesson long ago that his foray into politics gained momentum through his quality of 'strategic silence' and as a corporate scam facilitator. As long as he runs along this narrow niche without opening his mouth too wide, he believes he is safe.

How india is being treacherously enslaved by angloamerican agents likes  of   (unelectable and defeated in  democratic election ) this pm  manmohan singh and the english media inside india.

```&nb sp;           march, 2007

 &n bsp;  &nbs p; --this unelectable (and three times defeated in democratic elections ) so called prime minieter manmohan singh is a blot on the face of democratic india. he is there aonbly because the anglosaxon powers wanted him there instead of sonia gandhi(who wouldnot have been that maelelable to english speaking world-master race as this stooge manmohan is). this manmohan singh has been very unpopular in democratic election losing even when there was a wave in favour of congress. he has not even let pujab select his d=congress pqarty for assembley election in 2007 so mucn unpol;ular he is. but he is very popular amnost the anglosaxon media and govert. therefore he is popular amonst the english media and all the angloamerican stooges theat you find in any thirld world aka allwi,Ahmed Chalabi(of iraqi traitor fame) mubarak types.

manmoh an singh is a yeltsin of india-very pouilar amonst enemies of india exactly because he has sold india cheap to thse amngloamericn interests.
Anothe r factor is that he doesn't feel he is accountable to the public of Indiabecause he has not bene elelcted by people of India..
may 9th , 2007.

"The global banking cartel, centered at the IMF, World Bank and Federal Reserve, have paid off politicians and dictators the world over — from Washington to Greece to Egypt. In country after country, they have looted national economies at the expense of local populations, consolidating wealth in unprecedented fashion –

+2

Undo

avatar (unregistered) 17.04.2012 19:21

manmoahn singh is NOT a  spinessless puppet -he is the REAL EVIL  man who has presided over selling of india to americans because he is an american agent ,
indian are fool in thinking that he is innocent and sonia is evil it is the other way round-he is more foreigner's agent than sonia-if he could get nuclear deal pssed with bribery and in hurry in parlaiment then what stops him from bringing lokpal bill through presidentail decree?
========= ==================== ==================== ==================== ===================
Wikileaks show US diplomats effectively united with their local counterparts against a common enemy: the people – whether the people take the form of anti-war activists, jurors or voters in an upcoming election.manmohan singh and monteck ahulawali a are such traitors in India.
sadly bjp is corrupt as well and traitor, it was bjp and manmoahsn singh who were instrumental in removing natwar singh  from foreign msintery and keralite msinter aiyayr  from oil minstry because they awere acting in Indian  interest in foreign  and oil minstries  which was not liked by americans so americans ordered manmoahn signh and his bjp freinds to make life hell for those msinters and made them quit.these  minions to spread rumour in order to throw  those ministers out9they were loyal congressi and loyal to sonia gandhi-still they had to go becausetraitor manmoans ingh wanted them go).. Ayaar and natwar were ones of the few non traitors in the cabinet.other patriot is from kerala too the defence minister.. Most of the punjabi coterie there  are traitors like manmaohsn singh, mantack ahulalwalai and sibal who  are corrupt and in traitors  and are just pimps for angloamericans. sadly the punjabi coteire of gaddars are a lot in  bjp too ike  shshma swaraj, arn jetley-the unelected.
there msut a a rule that no rajya sabha memebr can be a priemmsinter (which viz-indra gandhi case in 1976 rule was already there) and no rajya sabha mebr can be a cabinet minister. if you cannot get yourself elelcted then how can you be a leader of even twenty people let alone 1.2 billions humans.?

+1

Undo

avatar (unregistered) 17.04.2012 19:19

"Empire strikes back

It is extremely likely the West will try to cushion the impact of its fall by linking up with entrenched oligarchs in the emerging nations.

&nbs p;

In February 2011, Mukesh Ambani of India's Reliance Industries, one of India's most controversial monopolies, announced a multi-billion oil exploration deal with British Petroleum. (BP was exposed by Wikileaks as a mover of the Iraq war.) The US-educated Ambani, who is worth $22 billion, said he was delighted to partner with “one of the finest deep water exploration companies in the world”.

&nb sp;

There are other weaknesses the West might exploit. In India there is a tiny – but dogged – Delhi based elite that is intensely Anglophile. The current Oxbridge educated Prime Minister, an un-elected and accidental elevation to India's top job thanks to dynastic politics, is one such example. This gentleman has gone to the extent of saying British rule was good for India.

 

Factoring in elements such as Eurocentric Russians and Anglophile Indians, it would be impossible to write off the West totally.

&nbs p;
============== ==================== ==================== ==============

3rd june 2012.
 It is a well knownfact that britian runs a protection racket in which it installs  stooges in other countries with american arms and then tells those stooges to bring stolen money to london nd british tax heaven -on which is dependent whole economy of britian the  pirate race of english parasites.
so when baba ramdev agitates for bringing 500 billions of indian money stolen and stashed in foreign  bankc the english media which is an agent   of british and anglos americans  strarts  doing propganda against  baba and sides with those people who are corrupt. Manmohan singh is british and American spy and agent.
Quit arguing that UPA is actually for Indian people. It is simply by USA and for USA."

+1

Undo

avatar (unregistered) 17.04.2012 19:16

angloamerican lobby has corrupted indian arm procuemnt otherwise with russia supporting india our country used to get the first class armamnet with govt. to govt. transaction and no corruption.
janau ry,2007

India n anglophile class -especially indian english language media -is a race of Coolies and traitors.   ;   & nbsp;  &nb sp;    ;   & nbsp;  &nb sp; 
 the same class of indians who are doing propaganda agasinty china today are the same people who forced rajiv gandhi in 1987 to make friendship with china(and recognise tibet as part of china) why-? because the usa had ben friend with china since 1984 and wanted india tobe friend too as opposed to russia.-therefore the indian parasite class foll=made the Indian  foreign  policy viz china not to suit india but to suit american interests-it is doing the same but in revere direction this time  because their anglo-american masters want them to do so.the same indian elite class (for example the president of ranbaxy ,a sikh, chairman of FICCi at the time in 80s was vehemently opposing any6 defence increase of buying of defence equioments while asking dfor freidnship with r=china qas desired by usa ain 80s). the same FICCi is making propaganda agasint DRDo and(with 6% of defence budget) and indian scintisits saying it has not kept the develpopmnet of innovations and kept the 50 yurs old mig 21 not in shape!.) These same indian traitors want india to buy 40 yrs old  arms (like junk  f16 and f-18) from america knowing fully well that it comes  with a heavy conditions unlike almost condition free and better arms(new mig-35) from russia.-but then thse elites are agents of angnlo american interests -so no surprise here-it is high time that thse elites are killed or kicked out of india-these are  allwais(iraqi traitor) of india.• Russia is already supplying India with the Sukhoi-30MKI, an advanced "fourth generation" warplane that consistently defeats its Western counterparts, such as the frontline US fighters, the F-15C and F-16. Versions of the Su-30 are also being sold to China, Venezuela, and Malaysia.

0

Undo

Realist 04.04.2012 12:37

@ MT. WELL SAID.

0

Undo

schroeder 04.04.2012 11:55

noname wrote in #8
ask me! the letter was knowingly leaked out so that people (inside india) would think oh damn, our military is so weak...let's buy more weapons...and those outside india would queue up to sell.
nicely played out drama by the most corrupt government ever to have existed in india and in entire south asia.
I agree that the INDIAN Government is corrupt and thats why they (indian citizens) are fighting against it. Leaders like ANNA HAZARE.

I have been watching the indian politics closely there is 10 fold increase in the corruption rate since 2000. And yet their economy is booming at 7-9 % rate which is very good for a large country with over 1 billion population.

+2

Undo

freespirit 04.04.2012 02:11

India and wrote in #11
US have pretty good relations.  Have for a long time. Yeh!  MMS & War zone women are bed time partners.

+2

Undo

avatar (unregistered) 04.04.2012 01:41

defense is first priority that is why the american spy the unelelcted harami manmoahns ingh the pm let indian  defense go down.

History is
full of nations much poorer, improving themselves first by making themselves militarily victorious
,by fair or foul means,over much richer and superior civilizations. That is exactly how
a race of pirate turned shopkeepers that is England and America made themselves rich.That is also why these pirate race of anglo-americans want to keep the ill gotten advantage by denying othersany means to get power or independence.That is the philosophy of nato.Who bothered about America before it stole Nuclear Technology from Germans? The other prominent makers of first atomic bomb were Italians and Hungarians,and thir country does not posses nuclear weaopn.From Americans who stole the technology did the british steal it.America also stole from the Germans Rocket and missiles technology.Now they want to make world astand still as it was in late '91s through self drafted this pact and that pact.Now they want others not to have the same technology. In the same way the british stole Tea production technology , china making tech and what not from China.How much the british tea companies and british china making ones like royal daulton paying royalty to China?none!But they want others to pay for rubbish tech of '60s retrospectivelly!! In fact even France is fed up with this cancerous anglo-american push to sell,indtead of much better Fernch food,rather rubbish tasteless food of anglo-saxons processed food industy which pushes for rotten and infected food like british beef. India should have sided with France and China to push for common interests.But India chose,under pressure from Anglophile english paper reading minority,to succumb to Low quality rubbish anglo-american products.
underst ands this duplicity and is not afraid to disturb that cosy arrangement of these anglo-american shopkeepers.

+4

Undo

avatar (unregistered) 04.04.2012 01:38

janaury,2007

Indian anglophile class -especially indian english language media -is a race of Coolies and traitors.   ;   & nbsp;  &nb sp;    ;   & nbsp;  &nb sp;  
 the same class of indians who are doing propaganda agasinty china today are the same people who forced rajiv gandhi in 1987 to make friendship with china(and recognise tibet as part of china) why-? because the usa had ben friend with china since 1984 and wanted india tobe friend too as opposed to russia.-therefore the indian parasite class foll=made the Indian  foreign  policy viz china not to suit india but to suit american interests-it is doing the same but in revere direction this time  because their anglo-american masters want them to do so.the same indian elite class (for example the president of ranbaxy ,a sikh, chairman of FICCi at the time in 80s was vehemently opposing any6 defence increase of buying of defence equioments while asking dfor freidnship with r=china qas desired by usa ain 80s). the same FICCi is making propaganda agasint DRDo and(with 6% of defence budget) and indian scintisits saying it has not kept the develpopmnet of innovations and kept the 50 yurs old mig 21 not in shape!.) These same indian traitors want india to buy 40 yrs old  arms (like junk  f16 and f-18) from america knowing fully well that it comes  with a heavy conditions unlike almost condition free and better arms(new mig-35) from russia.-but then thse elites are agents of angnlo american interests -so no surprise here-it is high time that thse elites are killed or kicked out of india-these are  allwais(iraqi traitor) of india.• Russia is already supplying India with the Sukhoi-30MKI, an advanced "fourth generation" warplane that consistently defeats its Western counterparts, such as the frontline US fighters, the F-15C and F-16. Versions of the Su-30 are also being sold to China, Venezuela, and Malaysia.

+5

Undo

MT (unregistered) 04.04.2012 01:15

A. 100. BILION. Dolars.

That is an absurd amount of money.

Just imagine how many people could be housed, fed, educated and generally taken care of if there was no need to funel all of that into weapons...

Fo r f...s sake, how blind do you have to be to realize that the line in the sand called a border is imaginary and that the person on the other side is a human being, JUST LIKE YOU!

We are one species living on one planet.
We will not survive as a species unless we stop waging war against ourselves.

In the era of space travel it is a shame that some people cannot seem to be able to look further than their own back yard!

+5

Undo

Topolcats (unregistered) 04.04.2012 01:05

More than 70% of India has no running water or toilets and are categorized as being in abject poverty!
The propaganda the western press is spewing about India being a super power is groundless!
China in understanding the meaning of super power status (which must involve a better life for her people) is leaps ahead in insuring her masses enjoy some part of the economic revolution.
India and consumption obsessed, mindless middle class are not in this category, and the elites of India (caste system and all) make Marie Antoinette's comments: "let them eat cake" seems almost benign!   
It seems somehow absurd that India is buying arms at an alarming rate when her people slowly die of starvation?   

+8

Undo

Eurasian (unregistered) 03.04.2012 23:09

India and wrote in #11
US have pretty good relations.  Have for a long time. _____________ ____________________ ____________________ __ Yes, and you marvelously demonstrated that by even ridiculing their PM´s searching them on your airports in the USA as suspected "terrorists." ;)

+9

Undo

Shaun 03.04.2012 23:06

There are many Terrorists groups currently training in India (eg in Tamil Nadu)and they must have stollen all the weapons from army or may have sold to the terrorsits.

+3

Undo

L deSilva 03.04.2012 22:40

The photo shows that India has a pretty strong army - Bamboo sticks & shields & someone said they wear flip-flops also with the Uniform. This time they have ordered the F-35 stealth bombers, which is supposed to have a few technical problems. More money will go into the widows swiss account.

+2

Undo

Nationalist1 03.04.2012 21:49

India and wrote in #11
US have pretty good relations.  Have for a long time.
You must be one of those who has sold India to west.

+8

Undo

Add comment

By posting your comment, you agree to abide by our Posting rules

Log in to comment in full, or comment anonymously under character-limit restriction.

100 Text

– required fields

Register or

Name

Password

Show password

Register

or Register

Request a new password

Send

or Register

To complete a registration check
your Email:

or Register

A password has been sent to your email address

Edit profile

Name

New password

Retype new password

Current password

Save

Cancel

Follow us