Your browser is out of date, and may not be compatible with our website. A list of the most popular web browsers can be found below. Just click on the icons to get to the download page. At a time when Moscow's military-industrial complex is occupied with the ongoing war in Ukraine, India has made the modernisation of its armed forces a top priority. That urgency has risen in tandem with tensions between the world's most populous nation and its northern neighbour China, especially since a deadly clash between their troops.
Relations between the two neighbours went into freefall after the clash on their shared frontier, which killed 20 Indian and at least four Chinese soldiers. India has become the world's largest arms importer with purchases steadily rising to account for nearly 10 percent of all imports globally in , the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute SIPRI said last year.
More is in the pipeline, with orders worth tens of billions of dollars from the United States, France, Israel and Germany in coming years. This decade India has opened an expansive new helicopter factory, launched its first homemade aircraft carrier, and conducted a successful long-range hypersonic missile test.
India has deepened defence cooperation with Western countries in recent years, including in the much-feted Quad alliance with the United States, Japan and Australia.
This reorientation has helped India sign various deals to import and locally co-produce military drones, naval ships, fighter jets and other hardware with suppliers from Western countries. It has also led to a precipitous drop in India's share of arms from longstanding ally Russia, which supplied 76 percent of its military imports in but only 36 percent in , according to SIPRI data.
