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Mar 23, 2018
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India’s armed forces are seriously under-equipped with outdated armaments ranging from guns and tanks to fighter jets, but the government seems to lack both the political will and the financial and bureaucratic capability to remedy the situation.

That has become clear in the past month with a serious of statements and reports about under-preparedness at …

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