New Delhi: Indian Army Chief Gen VK Singh told Prime Minister Manmohan Singh through a letter that nation’s security might be at risk owing to the fact that tanks are running out of ammunition, air defence is going obsolete and the infantry is operating without critical weapons, Indian media reported on Wednesday.
“The state of the major (fighting) arms i.e. Mechanised Forces, Artillery, Air Defence, Infantry and Special Forces, as well as the Engineers and Signals, is indeed alarming,” media reports quoted Gen Singh as saying in the letter.
Peeved over the complex and slow defence procurement procedures, General Singh points out that the present “hollowness” in the system is a manifestation of the procedures and processing time for procurements as well as legal impediments by vendors.
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