Thread on what stands out to me about the Agnipath scheme
First, no one thinks the armed forces don’t need reforms. The army especially, is incredibly manpower intensive and needs to move towards a slimmer more technologically capable service.
Jun 14, 2022 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
India to recruit 46,000 short-tenure 'Agniveer' troops in the armed forces this year, for a four-year period.
The recruitment will be under the respective service acts with an 'attractive monthly package with Risk and Hardship allowances' and a one-time 'Seva Nidhi' to be paid at the end of four years.
Mar 11, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Unbelievable! India’s defence ministry confirms ‘accidental firing’ of a missile into Pakistan.
Full statement below 👇
PRESS INFORMATION BUREAU (DEFENCE WING)
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
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‘हर काम देश केनाम’
New Delhi, Phalguna 20, 1943
Friday, March 11, 2022
Statement on accidental firing of missile
Mar 2, 2022 • 52 tweets • 5 min read
USG statement here says India has reduced it's reliance on Russian military equipment since 2011 by 53 percent. Unhappy about lack of elections in Jammu and Kashmir.
USG: Every piece of defence equipment we sell to India, is something that we will not have to field ourselves in Asia.
Jun 18, 2020 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
This is what happens when you try to hide information. If the exact numbers of the dead, injured, and captured had been disclosed right from the beginning, that would have really helped with international pressure on China.
Because that would have been the overwhelming narrative. Instead, it’s all about perception management now.
Aug 26, 2019 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
So @BoeingDefense delivered the last C-17 to the @IAF_MCC today
This is the 275th C-17 operational globally.
Sep 22, 2018 • 74 tweets • 9 min read
Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has claimed that the order for 126 Rafale MMRCA could not be concluded because the Congress-led UPA was looking for bribes. But the order was only canceled by the present NDA government more than a year after coming to power.
Going by what Mr. Prasad has said, it stands to reason that the current government could have fixed the problems with the 126 MMRCA and brought it back on track, if the reason why it was stalled was a demand for bribes by the previous government.
