![]() ![]() India's first chief of defense staff, General Bipin Rawat, was recently killed in a helicopter crash Image: Getty Images/AFPīharat Karnad, a national security expert and emeritus professor at the Center for Policy Research, said that the modernization program was not well planned. ![]() "Since last year, we have seen this sudden jump in modernization because of tensions with China and the ongoing Ladakh standoff and, of course, the constant engagement with Pakistan," Amrita Jash, an assistant professor at the Department of Geopolitics and International Relations, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, told DW. ![]() How is the process going?ĭefense experts say that the changing geopolitical situation and the security landscape of the Indian subcontinent have prompted the Indian government to accelerate military modernization. The air disaster has once again brought the issue of obsolete military equipment into focus and triggered a discussion about Indian military modernization. While the cause of the crash involving the general is still being determined, the December 24 accident saw the fifth MiG-21 jet go down in 2021. The crash also came weeks after the country's first chief of defense staff, General Bipin Rawat, was killed in a helicopter crash. The incident was the latest in a series of crashes in the year 2021 - one of the deadliest for Indian military aviation. On December 24, a MiG-21 aircraft of the Indian Air Force crashed in the western state of Rajasthan during a training exercise, leaving one pilot dead. ![]()
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