Skip to main content

India and Israel together can form a formidable team to be world leaders in defence arena, BJP leader Tarun Vijay said today.


  • India and Israel together can form a formidable team to be world leaders in defence arena, BJP leader Tarun Vijay said today.

    Addressing a seminar on 'Strategic Defence Cooperation between India and Israel' organized by FICCI jointly with SIBAT, Ministry of Defence, Israel, Vijay said India with its frugal engineering skills and Israel's repository of high technology is a winning combination.

    "Together, we can access and capture markets that are out of our reach individually," Vijay, a member of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Defence, said.

    He claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Make-in-India campaign has "infused a new vigour" in defence production sector.

    Indian companies are now seeking to explore co-production and co-development opportunities with foreign OEMs.

    "This augurs well with the huge defence modernization programme, availability of skills sets and willingness to invest in strategic sector and the aspiration to get a piece of the global defence business by integrating into the global supply chain of OEMs," he said.

    However, he added that any partnership has its challenges.

    Discharge of offset was one Israeli companies faced till a month back. "I am happy to share with you that the Ministry of Defence has now allowed the OEMs flexibility to change the Indian Offset Partner, thereby giving flexibility to fulfil their offset obligations," he said.

    Vijay said that over the past decade or so, Israel has become India's second largest arms supplier. During the first decade of the 21st century, Israel transferred an estimated USD 10 billion worth of military equipment to India.

    Brig Gen (Retd) Mishel Ben Baruch, Director, SIBAT, said that Israel shared a relationship with India that goes much beyond the buyer-seller relationship and extends to transfer of technology and joint research and development.

    Followed by, http://www.defencenews.in

    Comments

    Post a Comment

    Popular posts from this blog

    Border brawl: China choppers were in air

    Indian Air Force's Sukhoi 30 fighter aircraft  (File picture) Two helicopters of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army hovered close to the Line of Actual Control in eastern Ladakh on May 5 and Indian Air Force fighter jets had also been airborne at the same time during a face-off between soldiers near the Pangong lake, sources in the army headquarters said on Tuesday. The latest revelations come at a time there has been an escalation in tension in pockets of the disputed frontier. “The Indian Air Force is regularly carrying out sorties of its Sukhoi 30 fighter aircraft in the Ladakh sector amid the simmering tension with China in the region. During the face-off last week, two Chinese choppers had come close to the border but there was no air space violation. The IAF’s Sukhoi 30 fighter jets were also airborne at the same time but it was routine flying and not in response to Chinese helicopters,” a source said. Chinese PLA Choppers Spotted Near LAC; IAF Rushes Fighter Jets To Ladakh...
    Post a Comment
    Read more

    Indian Army looking for new armoured vehicles for Ladakh, Tata among contenders

    Humvee and American Stryker Infantry Combat Vehicle are the two others who are also being considered by the Indian Army to deliver such vehicles. Photo of a Tata Defence Combat Light Armored Multi Role Vehicle Seeking to provide highly mobile armoured protection vehicles to its soldiers in high altitude terrains like Eastern Ladakh, the Indian Army is looking to choose from three different vehicles including the indigenous Tata Wheeled Armoured Protection along with American Stryker Infantry Combat Vehicle and Humvee. The Indian Army has a need for armoured infantry combat vehicles for quick movement of troops in the Eastern Ladakh area where the Chinese have deployed their armoured personnel carriers in large numbers. The force is looking at the three options which include the Tata WhAP and the American Stryker and Humvee, defence sources told ANI. The options are being evaluated by the force at the moment and a decision in this regard would be taken soon, they said. Sources said duri...
    Post a Comment
    Read more

    ‘Disengagement an intricate process, needs constant verification’: Army

    The government’s high-powered China Study Group (CSG) on Wednesday reviewed the latest developments in eastern Ladakh, with focus on the next stage of disengagement between the Indian and Chinese armies following the 14-hour meeting between senior military commanders.   The focus of the current round of military talks is to hammer out a consensus on easing tensions between the two armies in the Finger Area and Depsang plains as well as pulling back weapons and equipment from friction points in other sectors.(PTI) India and China remain committed to “complete disengagement” which is an “intricate process” and “requires constant verification”, the Indian Army said in a statement on Thursday, two days after senior military commanders from both sides met at Chushul to discuss the road map for reducing tensions along the contested Line of Actual Control (LAC). “The senior commanders reviewed the progress on implementation of the first phase of disengagement and discussed further step...
    Post a Comment
    Read more