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Army’s fleet of Arjun tanks face technical issues; major proportion of 124 tanks in service not operational

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By Manu Pubby, ET Bureau | 30 Apr, 2015, 04.50AM IST

NEW DELHI: The Army is facing major technical issues with its ‘indigenous’ Arjun tanks, as a significant proportion of its fleet has become inoperable in recent months and are non-serviceable due to continued maintenance problems.

The Army, which reluctantly inducted 124 tanks from 2009, after the UPA government insisted that a token number have to be ordered to keep the tank development programme viable, has of late been having quality problems with the fleet.

The defence minister has been apprised of the issue. Sources said that the Army’s opinion is that while a large number of tanks are not operational due to technical defects, the fleet as such is not combat worthy due to reliability issues. “A number of tanks are not operational currently as transfer of technology (ToT) of several imported systems fitted onboard has not been done,” an Army official said.

The Army is surprised that quality issues have started arising even though the entire fleet came into service as recently as 2013 when deliveries ended. Given that the tanks are highly dependent on foreign equipment — 60% of the tank is imported — the failure to get maintenance technology means that the systems have to be sent abroad for even minor repairs.

It is believed that a meeting on the low serviceability rate of the Arjun fleet was conducted at South Block recently and Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar is aware of the problems. The Army has identified 96 problems, including 18 major ones. The minister has been keen to increase the efficiency of existing platforms available with the military given that there is a paucity of funds to procure new systems.

In IAF, he has personally intervened to ensure that the availability rate of the Su 30 fleet improves by at least 10%. A similar approach is being taken for the Army too. DRDO is, meanwhile, working on the development of a successor in the form of the Arjun Mk II.

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‘Army Takes a Day to Reach where PLA Can Rush In’

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By Express News Service Published: 28th April 2015 06:00 AM
NEW DELHI: Commenting on poor border roads connectivity, a Parliamentary panel has said that in the event of a war, the Army will take more than 24 hours to reach a border area where the Chinese PLA can arrive at in two or three hours. The Standing Committee on Defence, expressing serious concerns over connectivity to Arunachal Pradesh’s Tawang area, hit out at the Border Roads Organisation and asked it to construct good roads, especially on the eastern front facing China, on a priority basis.

The report said the delay in the procurement process had affected the armed forces’ operational preparedness.

The Committee observed that the naval budget had declined from 18.14 percent in 2006-07 to 16.51 percent in 2015-16.

Raising the issue of repeated naval accidents, the panel said the promulgation of the standard operating procedure to check the spurt in accidents was “ineffective”. The panel observed that allocation for the IAF is approximately 70 percent of the projection.

The report also slammed the ministry over the gap between the sanctioned strength of active fighter aircraft squadrons and their actual number.

The report said that the position of expenditure up to the end of February 2015 for the Army, Navy and the IAF is Rs 14,843,37 crore, Rs 18,438.02 crore and Rs 29,682 crore against their revised estimates of Rs 21,933.54 crore, 18,507.07 core and Rs 33,710.68 crore respectively.

Revamp DRDO

The Parliament Panel on Defence has called for a “complete revamp” and reorientation of the Defence Research Development Organistaion DRDO) to allow active participation of the private sector. It stressed on the need for a “complete revamp and reorientation of how the DRDO functions” with a major suggestion being to encourage the active involvement of the private sector, universities, the IITs and IIS. They could play a major role in the resurgence of the DRDO, it added.

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RTI- Army Hqrs-Donation Without Consent Leaves Army Offices Fuming Against Chief.

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To                                                                        26th January 2015
The CPIO, MoD (Army)
RTI Cell, G-6, D-1 Wing, Sena Bhawan
Integrated Headquarter of MoD (Army)
DHQ PO, New Delhi 110011

Hello,
Kindly provide me with the following information requested under the purview of the Right to Information Act, 2005 in respect of news publish in Sunday Standard 18-24 By Pradip R Sagar – Donation Without Consent Leaves Army Offices Fuming Against Chief.

 

  1. Provide the total amount donated by General Dalbir Singh Suhag to PM relief Fund.
  2. Provide the total number of Army officials given consent for detecting one day salary to PM relief Fund.
  3. Provide the total amount collected from Army officials who were given consent for detecting one day salary to PM relief Fund.
  4. Provide the total number of Army officials not given consent for detecting one day salary to PM relief Fund.
  5. Provide the copy of order given to CDA for detecting one day salary of Army official by Army Hq for PM relief Fund.

 

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रक्षा उपकरणों के परीक्षण ही बने सेना की फांस

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जागरण ब्यूरो, नई दिल्ली : रासायनिक हमले व हथियारों की जांच के लिए खरीदे गए विदेशी उपकरण सेना की फांस बन गए हैं। सारा पेंच उपकरणों की खरीद से पहले और बाद में कराए गए परीक्षणों के नतीजों को लेकर है। कंपनी और सेना मुख्यालय के बीच सौदे की परफार्मेस बैंक गारंटी को मामले के निपटारे तक बढ़ाने पर रजामंदी बन पाई है।

सूत्रों के मुताबिक उपकरणों की खरीद से पहले अंतरराष्ट्रीय प्रयोगशाला में हुए परीक्षणों को स्वीकार कर लिया गया था। हालांकि, बाद में सेना ने रक्षा अनुसंधान और विकास संगठन की प्रयोगशाला (डीआरडीओ) में भी इसकी जांच की। डीआरडीओ के नतीजे ही इस विवाद की जड़ हैं, क्योंकि इसके बाद ही सेना ने उपकरणों को तापमान और आद्र्रता के पैमानों पर निष्प्रभावी करार दिया।

उपकरण निर्माता फिनलैंड की कंपनी इनवायरॉनिक्स डीआरडीओ की प्रयोगशाला में हुए परीक्षण को चुनौती दे रही है। कंपनी अंतरराष्ट्रीय प्रयोगशाला में इसके परीक्षण को लेकर भी हीला-हवाली कर रही है। यह सवाल अहम है कि आखिर किन परीक्षणों के आधार पर उपकरणों की खरीद को हरी झंडी दी गई। साथ ही खरीद से पहले डीआरडीओ प्रयोगशाला में परीक्षण क्यों नहीं किए गए?

इस सवालों पर सेना मुख्यालय की चुप्पी के बीच करोड़ों रुपये की खरीद अब बेकार हो गई है। भारत ने 2009 और 2010 में करोड़ों रुपये की लागत से जहरीले रसायनों का पता लगाने वाले उपकरण खरीदे थे।

chempro 100i I dainik Jagran 21 Nov 2014

Budgetary Price approximately $9,500 

Purchase Price – Rs 100000/- each in bulk purchase                                                (more than $ 16000/each)

Army has purchased instrument ICAD Chempro 100i (Qty: 999 No’s, Make: Environics) against contract nos B/28704/NBC-4C/ICAD/GS/WE-6 Dated 23 Jun 2009 and B/28704/NBC-4C/Option/ICAD/GS/WE-6 dated 26 Mar 2010 for approximately 100 Crore (INR). This instrument detects the chemical warfare agents and is of utmost importance for the defence services. Having cleared the payment after the delivery, it was found that all these instruments failed to perform as per the specification and have technical problems. It is evident from the letter enclosed that performance related issues were raised in Nov 2012 and since then no action has been taken. Few officials are trying to cover up the issue by changing the specification instead of taking 100 Crore back.

As per the information gathered from the sources, these instruments were first purchased by   M P Kaushik from DRDE Gwalior (A DRDO Laboratory and Nodal Agency in Chemical Warfare). Satisfactory working certificate were given to the company and payment was cleared. Later Army gave the contract. It seems that with the help of M P Kaushik few official of army has executed this act.

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Army Tramples on Faulty DRDO Study on Siachen Deployment

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By Pradip R Sagar
Published: 02nd Nov 2014 06:06:55 AM The New Indian Express – The Sunday Standard

Vigilant Indian soldier - Siachen
Vigilant Indian soldier – Siachen

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s surprise visit this Diwali to the world’s highest battlefield, Siachen, to applaud the Indian army troops deployed there again brought into national focus the difficulty of operating under such adverse climatic conditions.

A study by Defence Research and Development Organisation, India’s premier defence research institute, to find solutions and shorten the acclimatization period has been junked by the Army.

Keeping unforeseen events in mind, the Army wanted to reduce the pre-acclimatisation training period to faster deploy its troops to high-altitude locations in cases of emergency. And for this, the DRDO was mandated to carry out a study on how to reduce the pre-acclimatisation training period in May 2009 with budget of over `3 crore. Delhi-based Defence Institute of Physiology and Allied Sciences (DIPAS), a wing of DRDO, carried out the study for which they selected 210 soldiers. In order to study the soldiers’ physiology changes, they were asked to stay in a make-shift chamber filled with nitrogen for intermittent periods. But the Army has rubbished the study report and criticised the methods adopted by the DIPAS scientists.

In a strongly worded four-page letter to DIPAS on 10 September, the office of the Director General Armed Forces Medical Services (DGAFMS) has raised serious objections and sought explanation on various key points related to the study including selection of troops for the study, use of multiple investigators to collect data, use of master step test as an indicator of exercise performance for high altitude and disparity in heart rate date from the same cohort at different points of the report.

DIPAS had used intermittent hypoxia study at sea level before dispatching soldiers to high-altitude locations. Explaining the terminology, a DRDO scientist said that Intermittent Hypoxic Training (IHT) is a test protocol usually given to the individual with reduced oxygen concentration as prevailed in high altitude for pre-acclimatising them at sea level in a normobaric hypoxic chamber, before they are deployed for high mountain warfare.

On the basis the outcome of the study, two costly normobaric hypoxic chambers were planned to be set up in Chandigarh to cater northern command and Sukhna for eastern command troops with a cost of over `10 lakh.

Reacting strongly to the samples of troops taken, that had men who had already served in high-altitude postings, the DGAFMS raised concerns on the validity of conclusions drawn from the data presented. While seeking justification for the selection of re-inductees as study subjects, the Army has said, “Current knowledge on the phenomenon of de-acclimatisation is limited. It is accepted by many experts in the field that certain physiological changes induces on exposure on high altitude may persist beyond one month of return to sea level.”

“Hence the choice of re-inductees as study subjects raises questions about the validity of date being presented, especially since the aim of the project is to extrapolate the findings to healthy soldiers being rapidly inducted to high altitude, in all probability, for the first time,” DGAFMC said in his detailed response to DIPAS study.

When contacted, DRDO spokesperson Ravi Gupta refused to comment as it is a classified matter.

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Prof. (Dr.) M.P. Kaushik Sc. `H’ Director, DRDE’s extension desire

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माननीय श्रीनरेंद्र मोदी जी                                                                  दिनाक 28 अक्टूबर  2014
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कक्षसंख्या  152 पीएमओ
साउथ ब्लाक  नईदिल्ली -110011

 

विषय : 60 साल उपरांत सेवा विस्तार के नियम का विभिन्न संस्थानों द्वारा अयोग्य, अक्षम व्यक्तियों की संस्तुति कर दुरूपयोग करने के सन्दर्भ में

माननीय श्री प्रधानमंत्री जी  आपने  इस महत्वपूर्ण विषय में ध्यान देकर इस दुरूपयोग रोकने के लिए आदेश भी दिए परन्तु यह बड़े खेद का विषय है कि कार्मिक विभाग आपके आदेशो को समुचित प्रभाव  से  कार्यान्वित करने में ढीलम ढाल कर रहे।

डीआरडीओ के श्री अविनाश चन्दर, वैज्ञानिक सलाहकार द्वारा अयोग्य, अक्षम व्यक्तियों की संस्तुति करना लगातार जारी है।  डी आर डी ई, ग्वालियर के निदेशक महोदय प्रोफ डा एम पी कौशिक जोकि इस 31 अक्टूबर 2014 को रिटायर हो रहे हैं वह अभी दिल्ली में श्री अविनाश चन्दर के चरण वंदना में लगे है कि किसी भी तरह उनको सेवा विस्तार दिला दे या फिर कोई चेयर, फेलोशिप, कॉन्ट्रैक्ट या कुछ भी दिला दो।

बदले में वो क्या कर सकते है उसकी एक झलक देखिये, एन बी सी वारफेयर के हेड होने के नाते  डा एम पी कौशिक ने एक विदेशी  यंत्र  (ICAD Chempro100i Make: Environics) जोकि विषाक्त केमिकलो का तुरंत  प्रभाव से पता लगा लेता था का आयात करा और उसकी गुणवत्ता को देख कर सेना ने  999 संख्या में 100 करोड़ रुपये की  इस यंत्र की खरीद जोकि  सामान्य  से दुगनी से ज्यादा कीमत थी।  यंत्र की सेना में विदेश से आप्पूर्ति  के बाद पता चला है की यह यंत्र हमारे देश की क्लाइमेट कंडीशन के लिए उपयुक्त नहीं है और काम नहीं कर रहा।

इस यंत्र की बड़ी इतनी संख्या में बड़ी हुई कीमतों में खरीददारी से किसको फायदा मिला और कहां कहां तक बटा यह तो सिर्फ डा एम पी कौशिक ही बता सकते है।

ऐसे लोगो की सेवा विस्तार के लिए संतुस्ती आना ही एक गंभीर बात है।  इस से संस्तुति करने वालो की मंशा व् नियत पर भी सवाल उठता है।

आपकी निरक्षण व् कार्यवाही के लिए कुछ तथ्य सलग्न है।

आशा है की इन तथ्यों की सपूर्ण जाँच करवा कर देश के बहुमूल्य पैसो का दोहन करने वालो के खिलाफ उचित कार्यवाही का जल्द से जल्द जाँच का आदेश देंगे।

 

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Enclosed details: Purchase background of ICAD Chempro 100i,, Make: Environics

Budgetary Price approximately $9,500 

Purchase Price – Rs 100000/- each in bulk purchase                                                (more than $ 16000/each)

Army has purchased instrument ICAD Chempro 100i (Qty: 999 No’s, Make: Environics) against contract nos B/28704/NBC-4C/ICAD/GS/WE-6 Dated 23 Jun 2009 and B/28704/NBC-4C/Option/ICAD/GS/WE-6 dated 26 Mar 2010 for approximately 100 Crore (INR). This instrument detects the chemical warfare agents and is of utmost importance for the defence services. Having cleared the payment after the delivery, it was found that all these instruments failed to perform as per the specification and have technical problems. It is evident from the letter enclosed that performance related issues were raised in Nov 2012 and since then no action has been taken. Few officials are trying to cover up the issue by changing the specification instead of taking 100 Crore back.

As per the information gathered from the sources, these instruments were first purchased by   M P Kaushik from DRDE Gwalior (A DRDO Laboratory and Nodal Agency in Chemical Warfare). Satisfactory working certificate were given to the company and payment was cleared. Later Army gave the contract. It seems that with the help of M P Kaushik few official of army has executed this act.

Environics's reply regarding non function of Chempro100i
Environics’s reply regarding non function of Chempro100i

 

Environics's reply regarding non function of Chempro 100i
Environics’s reply regarding non function of Chempro 100i

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Chemical Warfare Agents result from Chem Pro 110
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Hyderabad: Army personnel arrested for espionage

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Hyderabad, Aug 6, 2014, PTI: DECCAN HERALD

A Naik Subedar with Army was today arrested by city police on the charge of sharing information about strategic locations of Army bases and deployment of units with a woman, suspected to be a Pakistani national, through the Internet.

The accused was identified as Patan Kumar Poddar, Naik Subedar of EME Unit at Secunderabad.

Commissioner’s Task Force, in liaison with Army authorities, arrested Poddar acting on a tip-off, Hyderabad Police Commissioner M Mahender Reddy said in a press release.

According to police, Poddar was also involved in a network MARKETINGbusiness for a company named ‘Secured Life’, and had tried to persuade his colleagues in the Army to join his network.

His posting provided him opportunity to target the defence personnel who came into contact with him mainly for train reservations, police said.

Some time ago a woman, apparently a Pakistani national, befriended him through social media, and got him to give her information about Army’s strategic locations and deployment of some defence units, the Commissioner said.

She had shared with him her nude pictures to entice him, according to the investigation officer. “We will check his emails and his social media accounts to verify this,” said the officer.

Poddar spoke with several Army personnel and gathered information about locations of artillery regiments, commands, corps, division headquarters, etc.

Police have registered a case under Official Secrets Act (for espionage) as well as under Prize Chits Money Circulation Banning Act, 1977 (for getting involved in the network MARKETING business) against him. At present he has been lodged in judicial custody.

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India, US agree on arms deal, but technology transfer remains key

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Rajat Pandit, TNN | Aug 9, 2014, 05.34AM IST

NEW DELHI: India and the US on Friday agreed to go in for co-development and co-production of advanced weapon systems, with Washington pushing New Delhi for early decisions on offers ranging from the next-generation Javelin anti-tank guided missiles (ATGMs) to unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).Modi-Chuk

But India will not jump headlong into any venture without first ensuring the US sticks to its promise to provide “ground-breaking technology” on par with its closest allies, even though the Modi government is keen to strengthen the moribund domestic defence production sector.

The decision to revive the floundering Defence Trade and Technology Initiative (DTTI) between the two countries, as also work towards the extension of the 10-year India-US defence framework, was taken after visiting US defence secretary Chuck Hagel held delegation-level talks with his Indian counterpart Arun Jaitley.
But India is still not fully convinced about the US as a reliable long-term, high-end defence supplier, given its propensity to impose sanctions and stringent export control laws. The US, however, believes it can effectively marry trade and technology, with benefits for both.

Stressing that “security, stability, freedom of sea lanes, economic development and energy” is in the interest of the two countries as well as the Asia-Pacific region, Hagel said the US wants to be a partner in India’s military modernization and recognises its needs to strengthen its defence-industrial base.
The US will be led by its under secretary of defence acquisition, technology and logistics Frank Kendall in the DTTI. The Indian points-man, in turn, will be the defence production secretary, which is a comedown from before since former national security advisor Shivshankar Menon earlier led the initiative. Jaitley, incidentally, accepted Hagel’s invite to visit Pentagon when he goes to Washington to attend the annual meetings of IMF and World Bank.

Of all the joint development and production offers, the US is especially keen to push the case for fourth-generation Javelin ATGMs, which even President Barack Obama has personally pushed with Modi. The Indian ATGM project, after all, is going to be worth over $2.5 billion. Javelin is in contention with the Israeli “Spike” tank-killing missiles to bag the project, as was earlier reported by TOI.

With the 1.13-million Indian Army grappling with a huge shortfall of 44,000 ATGMs of different types, the project involves an initial direct acquisition of the man-portable “tank killers”, with a strike range of 2.5km, followed by technology transfer to defence PSU Bharat Dynamics for large-scale indigenous manufacture. The Army is keen to equip all its 382 infantry battalions with third and fourth-generation ATGMs.

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Vladimir Sikorski (Ulyanovsk. Russia) 3 hrs ago
In the 50’s and 60’s the Russians supplied us with their MIG’s, T-72 tanks and other weapons. The technology was transferred at that time. What happened after that. Were you guys able to develop further from that platform and make your own planes. No. The French transferred their Mirage aircraft technology in the 70’s and 80’s. Did you develop your own from that platform. No. It took 30 years to develop a 3rd generation aircraft called the Tejas. The Arjun tank was forced on the Army. So why do you Indians keep harping about technology transfer. Even after we give you all the books and manuals and the design features for a product, your paan chewing babu’s of the DRDO and the Defence Ministry are unable to develop anything over and above that. It is way better and cheaper to employ German and Japanese engineers and scientists, pay them well in India and they will develop your arms industry for you. You don’t have much time. World War III is round the corner.

Himanshu Agarwal (Location) replies to Vladimir Sikorski 54 mins ago Bronze : 189189 PointsWordsmith 1News King 1Frequent Flyer 2
Yeah probably India should focus of Developing worlds class universities and then investing similar amount to restructure and new-hiring in DRDO.

Jagdish Sinha (Patna. Bihar) 1 day ago
The USA now is willing to give all the technology India wants as it knows that the idiots in DRDO cannot duplicate or build on anything. The technology for the MIG and the T-90 tanks was transferred by Russia long time ago but we are still unable to build on it and innovate based on the earlier model. It took 30 years to build the Tejas. What a joke it turned out to be. The tech for the French planes was also provided, but just to upgrade the planes they spent billions and had to send them to France. Poor show India.

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PULSE OF INDIA: The fact that India is unconvinced of the reliability of US as a trustworthy defence supplier is absolutely understandable and perfect, considering the past experiences where the US had utterly failed to keep its promises on some important deals. So, it is only right for India to insist that all major deals should be fair and wherever appropriate include transfer of technology which was rightly pinpointed by the Prime Minister. The US belief that it can “effectively marry trade and technology” benefitting both is simply yet another striking example of marriage of convenience! The defence needs of India are indeed varied and important, some even urgent, but the Indian requirements are also huge and long-standing. Thus, it is important for India to ensure continuity in the supply chain which can only be achieved by establishing manufacturing facilities within the country. The keenness of US to strike deals with India on the latest weapons is also equally understandable, especially considering the money-value of the deal as well as its own role as a leading defence equipment exporter but the US should know that from now on all deals with India will have to be on a win-win situation basis! However important or urgent the defence needs are to modernize its armed forces, India should indeed not hurry or plunge into any deals without knowing the depth! India is the largest democracy in the world followed by the US but whether they have been truly friendly or why the US has failed to extend a hand of friendship befitting that status are debatable issues. But one thing is for certain which the world should know that the 21st Century India presently under Modi leadership is going to be a power to be reckoned with! (cc: BJPCALL-LC / PMO /MOD)

Krishna Jha:22 hours ago US Is the leader in front line technology. Before signing any agreement we must ask for TOT. Why to reinvent the wheel. As our limitations to re engineer MIG has been unsuccessful but translating blue more..