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India para 72,000 US assault rifles kinibo

New Delhi:  Official koishe  India’s Defence Ministry para  Monday  te  arms and military equipment worth Rs 2,290 crore, pabole  nimete etu te  komti hoilebi 72,000 Sig Sauer assault rifles US laga  haath para    troops  nimete china aro Pakistan te border guard kura manu khan nimete.

Etu proposals   khan toh Defence Acquisition Council (DAC), Defence Ministry’s highest decision-making body arms aro dusra equipment  lobole  nimete desh  laga armed forces lobole  nimete meeting te  approve kurishe.

Officials koishe Etu  proposal clear kura toh assault rifles   kinibole   nimete dusra significant accquisiton approve kura toh DAC para etu te smart anti-airfield weapon (SAAW) systems Navy aro Indian Air Force nimete Rs 970 laga daam te thakishe.

Defence ministry koishe “DAC khan  defence minister Rajnath Singh  logote milikena  alag alag arms aro equipment    worth Rs 2,290 crore daam nimete approval paishe.”

Officials  koishe  Etu  procurement  laga daam  Sig Sauer assault rifles nimete frontline troops nimete indian   army khan nimete Rs 780 crore ase.

Army khan ekta mega infantry modernisation programme chulai ase  etu bithor te bishi wala light machine guns, battle carbines and assault rifles khan  kinishe  tai khan laga ageing and obsolete weapons laga bodli .

October 2017 te Indian Army khan process shuru kurishe  komti hoilebi around seven lakh rifles, 44,000 light machine guns (LMGs) aro 44,600 carbines lobole  nimete.

world’s second largest standing Army para  akhe te jai thakishe  etu  alag alag  weapons  systems khan lobole nimete   etu  bi  India’s borders Pakistan and China logote  security challenges ola nimete.

Etu  military  equipment luwa toh ekta samay te thakishe indian army khan  china  logote  eastern  ladakh te chamela  ola samay te ase.