Foreign rifles trump 'Make in India'; Army shutting down high-tech project

Army closing indigenous high-tech project to save money for imported guns

The ministry of defence (MoD) is shutting down the high-tech indigenous project to develop a Battlefield Management System (BMS) — a 21st century digital network that interconnects combat soldiers on the frontline, giving them all a common picture of the battlefield and greatly reducing the “fog of war”. 
 

Business Standard has learnt the army wants to save the Rs 50 billion needed to develop the revolutionary BMS, in order to buy foreign rifles and carbines — weaponry in which technology has advanced only incrementally over the last century.

Last October, the vice-chief of army staff ordered the BMS project shut down