India has increased its arms and defense exports 35-fold since Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government came to power in 2014, and plans to increase it further. This was announced by the Indian Defense Minister Rajnath Singh, speaking at the pre-election rally held in Ahmedabad.
“In 2014, we exported 6 billion rupees ($72 million) worth of defense products, but now that number has crossed 210 billion rupees (over $2.5 billion), and I can say it will increase,” Singh said. quoted by NDTV media.
The minister also stated that Modi’s government, which represents the People’s Party of India, strives for the defense products to be produced in the country by Indians themselves.
“Today we have reached more than 1 trillion rupees ($12 billion) in defense production,” he said.
India supplies defense products to 85 countries. New Delhi offers a wide range of weapons including artillery, BrahMos supersonic cruise missiles, anti-aircraft missiles and Pinaka launchers, torpedoes, radars, training equipment, armored vehicles, aircraft including helicopters and aircraft, warships and patrol boats, tanks, electronic warfare systems and other self-made weapons.
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