Indian Defence Exports
- Thread starter R!cK
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Recent Indian exports to Myanmar
It’s clearly misleading news. They purchased whatever they want with rupees, not “arms”.
It's a clickbait headline. The article linked says
I guess arms could be counted as an engineered good, but more likely its tooling/machinery to help offset consumption from their arms manufacturing ramp up.
Either way, I guess it doesn't matter? India is just in it for the money, they sold artillery shells to Ukraine through intermediaries as well. I don't think India really has a stake in the conflict.
Munitions India Ltd. has achieved a significant milestone with export of ammunition and explosives valuing INR 1726 Crores for the Financial Year 2023-24.
Could be one of the shipments of MIL which we saw insurance taken for marine export.
So, it seems the ship carrying 27 tons of weapons to Israel that Spanish port denied was actually going for the Czech Republic. The Spanish govt. might have jumped the gun on making public announcements.
Some Spanish journalists are claiming the following:
Some whistleblowers and the BDS movement were claiming that the ship was going to Slovenia and from there to Ashdod in Israel.
The Spanish government now assures that the weapon material will go from Slovenia to the Czech Republic by land and that it has the document guarantee that this is the case. This is a page form an official document transferred to the government of Spain with the certificate from the Czech Republic that guarantees the same.
Also, the 125mm HE rounds are used by Soviet tanks. Israeli Merkava tanks have a 120mm main gun. Also, India exports & imports arms/ammo with Israel pretty openly. There is no need for this roundabout way to send weapons to Israel.
However, if the ammo was intended for Ukraine, then New Delhi would probably be less direct about it. The Czech Republic has transferred good quantities of ammo to Ukraine since the beginning of the war. There is a high probability that this exported ammo would end up in Ukraine. There is an end user agreement attached to this export. But those agreements are only as good as their enforcement, which is non-existent from our side.
Pretty interesting scenario. Wonder what happens now. @Ashwin @randomradio @Parthu @Ginvincible @BMD @marich01
Apparently, we are also selling boots to the Russian army:
BBBS presented capabilities at the India-Romania Defence Industry Seminar held in Bucharest, Romania. The event sparked significant interest among Romanian industry partners. We are grateful to His Excellency Mr. Rahul Shrivastava, Indian Ambassador to Romania and Indian DA for Romania, Group Captain Bikash Kumar Sahu for facilitating this successful seminar, which marks the beginning of promising collaborations and partnerships between India and Romania in the defense sector.
