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As promised in the recently released draft Defence Production and Export Promotion Policy and draft Defence Acquisition Procedure, the defence ministry has issued a list of weapons platforms and defence equipment that will be embargoed for import, with year-wise timelines, from now to 2024. This is intended to provide domestic defence firms the confidence to develop import-embargoed defence equipment, using their own technology or capability sourced from the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), with the assurance that the military will not eventually import those.
True, the military is acquiring most of the equipment that features on the import-embargoed list indigenously.
