With the government approving the development of a new variant of light combat aircraft, Indian Air Force Chief Marshal VR Chaudhari on Thursday said the LCA Mark 2 fighter aircraft will fill a critical capability void besides giving a tremendous boost to the indigenous design and development of country s next-generation fighter aircraft.
The Deadly Alphabet Soup That Is India s Defence Acquisition Procedure
Service officers and defence ministry officials concede that the âalphabetic morse codeâ that comprises communications with vendors pose a âformidable comprehensibleâ challenge even to themselves.
Representative image of government files. Photo: Indi Samarajiva/Flickr CC BY 2.0
Security19/Jan/2021
Every day we are assaulted by a miasma of bewildering acronyms and abbreviations in official documents, newspapers and on television, all guaranteed to drown millions of us in thick alphabet soup.
But this confusion is possibly paramount in Indiaâs defence acquisition procedure, that remains a deadly cocktail of abridged and shortened terms that even its originators, at times, find difficult to comprehend or unravel. Service officers and Ministry of Defence (MoD) officials concede that the âalphabetic morse codeâ that comprises almost all their internal communi