India pushes for arms sales to Africa as part of strengthening its defense sector | DW News 

India is doing great in Defense, IT industry, Pharma Industry, Space Programs, Food Production. Good Luck India 👍

I find it surprising that your New Delhi correspondent could not answer your questions correctly. To the Q about why India wants to hike exports and why choose defense as an industry over other sectors - the American, European, Russian and Chinese pathway should be able to provide you an answer. India sees this as a viable sector is the simple answer. As it tries to bring down its own imports and design and manufacture more defense items for its own forces, it also looking to export the same in order to amortize development cost and learn from different use cases. Also, India brings in a lot of core strengths in defense. Due to its inherent advanced capabilities in Software development, Rocketry (Space Program), Chip design and AI algorithms, this translates into cutting edge defence products in the field of Radars, Missiles and Aviation. Significant investments into the field of Missiles, Aviation, Radars and Artillery have resulted in world class products at fairly down to earth prices. And like every sector, earning forex is now a key mandate, just like it is for Germany, France, Italy and Spain. India is not choosing Defence over any other sector, but like every big country with a lot of capacity and sectoral strength and variety, India is also focusing on the defence export sector. Its called adding value to the export list and shows how far India has come over the last 77 years. Hope this explains your Q.

India has set-up target of $2Trillion exports till 2030, it's $770 billion in 2022-23 fiscal year.

A stronger India is good for the world.. Balance of power should be maintained for that we need a stronger India.. Love and respects to India❤🇮🇳

India even sold defense equipments to the USA, Boing made a lots of components in India, India supply ammunitions to US as well

It's good to see that India is creating lots of progressive news which is creating a lot of tension in western world nowadays.

As a man from Europe, I want to say that we Europeans need indian weapons because we have limited stock of defence equipment.

Indian domestic economy is over $12 trillion. Indian government defence budget is about $ 100 bilion, its not even 1% of total domestic economy. India is going to invest.more in self made weapon industry. Smart move.. 👏 well done India.

Actually the final question asked by the Anchor is semantically wrong. She said and I am paraphrasing "Why emphasize on defense sector over others?" You see, it's not "over other sectors"...we are making everything priority now and Defense sector was far behind the other industrialized sectors for quite some time. So, it's time it catches up with others.

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Soon Qatar or Pakistan pay DW to make report on how bad Indian weapons are. How Hindu party is fascist.

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Is selling weapons platforms the sole prerogative of the West, to be specific the US and Europe? Anyone else trying to do is being presumptious or trying hard to crash the Big Boys' Club of Arms Manufacturing.Why DW should have a news item on India trying to sell weapons to African nations is beyond comprehension. To top it, the anchor's demeanor in this whole exchange reeks of condescension. One feels that DW completely fails to mask its bias against India.

West mocked at India, but India will surpass west soon

Atleast indian production will be better than chinese arms good. So Germany must consider buying instead of china

Wow, major change coming to Africa. First, valuable infrastructure provided by the Chinese. Then African nations joining BRICS. And now buying weapons from India.

Don’t forget Vietnam. We need those BRAHMOS.

Indian equipment may not look sleek but unlike Chinese weapons it will not malfunction in the midst of battle.

How could the correspondent miss Armenia and Philipines?

"Honesty is the best policy "--- This is India's policy

The ability to export weapons indicates increasing self-reliance in the defense sector. This is essential for India's survival in the turbulent times we are witnessing.

Great job 👍👌 export more and more private defence company of India 🙏

Good work india!

Ma man charu works so hard on so many topics, what a chad

People commenting 'why make more weapons' must be living without doors and locks in their homes, im sure. 🙃

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Chinese air defence system deployed in pakistan couldn't even detect Brahmos missile. Chinese weapons cd be cheaper bt indian weapons will be more impactfull. And on the other side we hav US and european weapons which hav good quality bt are highly expensive

I am proud of being an Indian. This country have always given shelter to all religions. Indian people where they live, they perform their Karma (actions) for betterment of that country.

*Not only challenging American Dollars, but also the American military industrial complex!!!* 😅😅😅

*5 billion dollars export by 2025* 💪🇮🇳💪🇮🇳

India going toe-to-toe with Russia and China (BRICS) countries.

Charu is the only correspondent DW has 😝

christan west can not be friend india, Live long india

India must follow the Chinese example and export arms to war zones to check capability and do field trials . For example VSHORAD or Nag can be given to the Kurds for use against Turkish Cobras and F16s or SAAW or Astra can be supplied to Armeinains SU30 for use against Azerbaijan ….same with laser guided heavy mortar shells to the Afghans for use in Panjshir ….Recently we saw video footage of a Kurdish militant locking in and bring down a Turkish cobra chopper with an Igla9…this is the best marketing video in the world

Both seemed eager to do away with this topic than seriously discuss it!

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Also report India is selling them in Rupees not in Dollars anymore.🇮🇳💪

India will provide world class defence technologies to partnering like minded countries at very competitive price. Followed by good training and logistical post sales support. That is unlike case with Cheap Chinese weapons.

But the irish guy in the european parliement said yesterday Europe wasn't seeking peace by supplying weapons to Ukraine...🤔

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All thanks to the Modi government which took big decisions to boost the make in India initiative 👍👍👍👍

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🤣Lot of Jealousy in the Comment Section around the GLOBE😂

Remember Brahmos JV. Russia may also be re-exporting arms from India to other countries. Indian Defence PSUs already do licenced production of Russian platforms.

That camo on the thumbnail looks like it was designed by Nickelodeon. LOL

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Whether we import or export weapons wtf it has to do with Europe?

India itself is known to license many South African arms and equipment. So it's all fair to export.

It is imperative for African countries to gear up to the threats posed by the white imperialist western countries and this is a positive step in this direction.

"Why does India has such big ambitions to export?- DW Journalist. To give Blo Job s to Germany

INDIA one of the oldest civilization that no one can't even date, will be back with a bang within 2050

amid 1.4 billion indians the channel only has a limited option of charu...to be invited every time...strange...there r great many other geopolitics experts in india of pristine qualitty... i dont understyand y the channel wants to portray a certain version of india to audience....

Please not bring charu in every topic.

There are more jealous .

Why India or Indian feel proud of these exports or in space programs? Answer: these institutions get funding from govt which is very low. So govt want these institutions to earn their money for their own research and hope that if earning is more than required then contribute to other sector of country. This is primary objective to become self sufficient institutions. It is simple reason don’t make it complicated

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I love the burning in comment section😂😂

Yes. They are

My good friend General Aladeen said that if it is not pointy then it is not scary. India please make your missiles pointy.

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even if other countries are buying socks for their army, this govt. is going to say 'they import our defense equipment'.

Africa is the most important country for India 🇮🇳

Make sense

Genderless people crying in the comments . 😂😂

India military relies on foreign weapons rather than its own, but wants to sell its homemade weapons to other countries? 😂

Africa can make it's own weapons

Indian weapons will be economical in comparison to US or Europe and chinese weapons will be more cheap. But indian weapons will not malfunction during battle , thats a plus point

What's an Africa Weapon and why does India want to sell these?

meanwhile china :- you can have weapons but they won't work US:- you can have weapons but are aren't cheap Russia :- you can have weapons we won't deliver it on time Europe :- you can have weapons but follow our rules

Make a video on Europe war crimes in Africa

India is buying weapon from Russia and now want to sell to Africa😜👍🍺

Africa ❤❤❤❤❤India ❤❤❤❤❤❤

By selling arms we could use the money to further feed the research sector of the defence which is currently lagging behind. Increase in arm sales will give a boost to the countries development and improve relations. We have stayed neutral for too long and have lost lots of land and lives to our neighbours in wars.

There's a big market for Russian weapons spare parts and maintenance.

Myanmar dictator is 😊big customer for India

Charu knows everything

Kate just for your information everybody needs cheap and reliable arms and ammunition no matter from where?

The Himalaya glaciers are melting, like anywhere but manufacturing more weapons is more important

What Arms ? They don’t even Manufacture a Revolver or Pistol that can Cycle a Round Properly. 😢

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India needs to manufacture oxygen tanks, ventilators, clean it's rivers and hospitals and spend billions to protect women and girls instead of cows.

Same quality as their movies.

We should start manufacturing weapons missiles tanks drones bombers subs acs etc

I think Low cost high yield weapons are key to war not high cost techs like US made weapons it increases a cost over 100% and delivers 10-20 % improvement thats why Russian cost effective weapons India mostly imports

India is biggest military equipment purchase county,

We are not

World will see hypersonic weapons in India currently project VISHNU is going on and soon it will complete.

Africa need education, not weapons

*India🇮🇳 have border disputes with China, Pakistan, Nepal.* make border agreement & keep peace!

well, buying India weapons equal to contributing to world peace.

Import lobby upset😢

Ya , he also provide healthy food, you need ?

India is one of the biggest weapon importer. If they could, they would fulfill domestic needs first.

Most Indian Weapons are Chinese or Russians copies. And if you can believe it, they are of even worse quality than those two...

Do not buy defense equipments from Lotus Machine tools pvt ltd Chandigarh India. Their products are very very low quality. They are with other names: Lotus Defense and aerospace, Security Equipments, Future Technologies. RK Gupta(Father), Amit Gupta(Son)

Yesj we need roclet laiincjets the missiles tanks etc

Hello India can you delivery toilets as well?? Thank you