India opens fighter tender to all comers
Almost four years ago the Indian parliament’s defense standing committee leveled a number of major criticisms at the nation’s defense procurement process.

Almost four years ago the Indian parliament’s defense standing committee leveled a number of major criticisms at the nation’s defense procurement process. One of the main recommendations called for the country’s Ministry of Defence to diversify its procurement process through global tenders “to enable the emergence of competitive prices” and to end the practice of buying the majority of the nation’s weaponry from “a single source”– the latter a poorly veiled reference to Russia.