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India's Defence? See Page 12 Now Available April - May 2016 Volume 11 No. 2 `100.00 (India-Based Buyer Only) NEW EDITION SINCE 1965 43rd isSUE From 51 Years Old Media House www.spsmilitaryyearbook.com www.spsnavalforces.com ROUNDUP THE ONLY NAVAL MAGAZINE FOR NAVIES ACROSS ASIA-PACIFIC Ear panel 2015-16.indd 1 06/11/15 5:42 PM PAGE 3 LEAD STORY A Naval Thoroughbred at the Helm ILLUSTRATION: Anoop Kamath Admiral Sunil Lanba, PVSM, AVSM, ADC, has assumed command of the Indian Navy as the 23rd Chief of the Naval Staff on May 31, 2016. Rear Admiral Sushil Ramsay (Retd) PAGE 4 Sea Harriers Fly Away into Glory After 33 years sterling service, the Sea Harriers were deinducted from the Navy and undertook its last flight on May 11, 2016. The squadron has been re-equipped with the new and more lethal MiG-29Ks. Rear Admiral Sushil Ramsay (Retd) PAGE 5 Defexpo Explores ‘Make in India’ Possibilities Defexpo had attracted 1,055 companies compared to 624 in the previous edition and the net exhibition area was up from 27,515 Are Our Politicians square metres to 40,725 square metres, an increase of 48 per cent. R. Chandrakanth PAGE 6 First Scorpene – Kalvari on Losing Interest in Sea Trials….and Looking Beyond Owing to raging controversy on account of VVIP helicopters scam there is increasing pressure on suspending and India’s Defence? eventually blacklisting Italian conglomerate Finmeccanica and its subsidiary arms. Rear Admiral Sushil Ramsay (Retd) PAGE 10 Paradigm Roadmap for a Future Ready Naval Force All political parties are losing interest in India’s defence matters International Seminar on ‘Make in India’ Paradigm – Roadmap for a Future Ready as only 10 of the 24 had given their views in the report of the Naval Force was organised by FICCI in association with the Indian Navy on April 18 Parliamentary Standing Committee on Defence and 19, 2016, in New Delhi. Rear Admiral Sushil Ramsay (Retd) Flag Appointments 11 n GENERAL V.P. MALIK (RETD) cation for defence is not sufficient and cent of its GDP. Since then, there has News in Brief 11 woefully inadequate for modernisation.” been a steady downslide, to 1.47 per cent HE STANDING COMMIttEE This assessment cannot be a surprise to this year, not counting the thousands ON Defence, headed by the anyone, except those who have stopped of crores surrendered by the Ministry Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) taking interest in India’s defence require- of Defence (MoD) near annually. So the Member of Parliament Major ments. After Kargil war, during which I Defence Secretary G. Mohan Kumar was General B.C. Khanduri (Retd), made that famous statement: “We shall absolutely right when he admitted before Thas recently conveyed to the Parliament fight with whatever we have”, India’s the parliamentary panel that India’s mil- APPLIED FOR that the “Growth in the budgetary allo- defence budget was raised to 2.41 per itary spending for financial year (FY) 2/2016 1 LEAD STORY SP Guide Publications takes this had made the famous statement: issue of SP’s Naval Forces this try. Key decision makers from the opportunity to welcome Admi- “We shall fight with whatever we year, also carried out an analysis Ministry of Defence, Niti Aayog, ral Sunil Lanba who assumed have”.The Standing Commit- of the defence budget but with Indian Navy, defence PSUs, command of the Indian Navy on tee on Defence, headed by the somewhat restraint approach. Indian private defence indus- May 31, 2016, on the superan- Bharatiya Janata Party Member Also included is an update on try and foreign defence industry nuation of Admiral R.K. Dhowan. of Parliament Major General B.C. Scorpene submarine programme took part. This was an important Prior to taking over as the Chief Khanduri (Retd), has recently which has been delayed like all step towards making the vision of the Naval Staff, Admiral Lanba conveyed to the Parliament that other programmes. The first sub- of ‘Make in India’ of the Prime has been the Flag Officer Com- the “Growth in the budgetary marine is likely to be delivered by Minister Narendra Modi a real- manding-in-Chief of the Southern allocation for defence is not suffi- the end of 2016 and the remain- ity as the defence industry has a and Western Naval Commands, cient and woefully inadequate for ing five by 2020. However, in the major role in contributing to the wherein he provided impetus to modernisation.” This assessment event of cancellation of existing economic growth of India. Thus training and skill development, cannot be a surprise to anyone, Wass contract for Black Shark a seminar report is included in synergising combat operations, except those who have stopped heavyweight torpedoes, the first this issue. The usual news digest EDITORIAL coastal security, safety and infra- taking interest in India’s defence of the line Kalvari will be equated and flag postings just about wraps structure development along the requirements. to an underwater predator with- this issue. Wish you all discerning western seaboard and in the Lak- The Defence Secretary G. out teeth. The Navy also gave an readers happy reading!. shadweep and Minicoy Islands. Mohan Kumar was absolutely emotional farewell to Sea Harriers We at SP Guide Publications right when he admitted before on May 11, 2016, after about 33 wish him a very successful com- the parliamentary panel that years of service. mand and taking the Indian Navy India’s military spending for The seminar ‘Make in India’ to even greater heights. We also financial year 2016-17 is not as Paradigm: ‘Roadmap for a Future wish Admiral Dhowan a happy per the requirements of the ser- Ready Naval Force’ was organ- and healthy retired life. vices. Pertinent question could ised jointly by the Indian Navy The lead article is a critique be that is the government and and FICCI. The seminar made of the defence budget by General political parties losing interest in ripples as all aspects of naval V.P. Malik, former COAS who led India’s defence?” General Malik hardware for war-fighting was the Indian Army during the Kargil has raised some very pertinent clearly spelled out by the Navy for JAYANT BARANWAL war. During the war General Malik issues in his article. The first the benefit of the defence indus- Publisher & Editor-in-Chief 2016-17 is not as per the requirements of ficient to fulfil military’s basic needs, let `1,48,498.85 crore which is an increase from regional power, the defence allocation the services. alone its modernisation. last year’s BE `1,37,153.03 crore. The fact is and expenditure needs to be supple- A question linked to the above-men- In the FY 2015-16, MoD was unable to that this expenditure has been bloating year mented to create the capabilities which tioned observation would be, “Are the gov- spend `18,295 crore out of its allocated after year and thus skewing maintenance the armed forces will need in future. ernment and political parties losing inter- budget. This included `11,595 crore from versus modernisation ratio in defence allo- zz The inability to spend allocated capital est in India’s defence?” the Capital expenditure, or 13.4 per cent of cation. Ideally, it should be about 50:50 for modernisation budget must be rectified I believe so. Not only the NDA regime but the funds earmarked to purchase new mili- the air force and navy, and about 65:35 for urgently. We should reconsider ‘non- all political parties seem to be losing interest tary equipment. The rest unspent amount the manpower-intensive army. lapsable, roll-on allocation’ for defence in India’s defence matters when one notices was from Revenue expenditure, mostly In the past, whenever Revenue expen- capital budget. This was instituted by that only 10 out of 24 political parties had maintenance requirements of the mili- diture overshot the budgeted allocation, the last NDA Government under Atal given their views in this report of the Par- tary. For the unspent money, which leads there was a tendency to dip into the Capital Bihari Vajpayee. liamentary Standing Committee on Defence. to reduction in the Revised Estimates (RE) expenditure. This year, with extra Revenue zz While seeking additional resources from As an armed forces veteran, I noticed year after year, we can blame the Ministry expenditure required on account of 7th Pay the government, it is also the responsi- two firsts in the annual budget presented of Defence for its cumbersome procedures, Commission recommendations, and post- bility of the Ministry of Defence and the to the Parliament this year. and also its Finance Adviser who takes his Pathankot attack extra security measures armed forces to control the ever bloat- First, the Finance Minister Arun Jaitley cues on curtailing defence expenditure for large defence installations, I doubt if ing Revenue expenditure. This requires never mentioned the word ‘defence’ in his from the Ministry of Finance. Usually, he is we can come anywhere close to these ratios stricter check over manpower expan- speech. I cannot recall that happening in seen to be more loyal to his parent ministry next year. sion, with greater use of technology the last five decades or more. In the budget than the one in which he is located. I have four additional comments to make. where necessary. With greater integra- 2014-15, there was a cryptic reference to the For the FY 2016-17, the Capital expen- zz As a ratio of projected GDP for the FY tion of services, we can cut down dupli- ‘Make in India’ programme in defence self- diture outlay for the armed forces is 2016-17, India’s defence expenditure cation (sometime triplication) of our reliance.
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