Tejas Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) |
Narendra Modi, the newly elected prime minister of India, will likely push for the nation to provide arms to developing nations at lower prices than China, according to the Moscow-based Military-Industrial Courier.
Echoing this possibility, Avinash Chander, chief of India's state-run Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), recently told the New Delhi-based Press Trust of India that the country needs a "policy mechanism" for exporting weapon systems to friendly foreign nations. "We have a list of equipment that includes the Light Combat Aircraft 'Tejas', 'Akash' air defence system, 'Prahar' class of missiles and 'BrahMos' supersonic cruise missiles along with a number of systems that can be exported," Chander said.
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