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Dividends beyond the battlefield: India's defence push boosts tech skills

The biggest payoff of India's emerging military-industrial complex may be for its IT- and electronics-related skillsets

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The European Union and Nato (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) members, for instance, are looking at increasing defence budgets. (Illustration: Binay Sinha)

Devangshu Datta

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Strategic analysts may debate the success or otherwise of Operation Sindoor. But it was undoubtedly a demonstration of the capabilities of India’s fast-growing defence industry. Various nations have since expressed interest in Indian defence tech.
 
Operation Sindoor came at a good time for India’s military-industrial complex. Rising global tensions have pushed up defence budgets at a time when increasing US isolationism, and the strong-arm tariff tactics of the Donald Trump regime have opened up high-growth, high-value markets to non-American defence manufacturers.
 
The European Union and Nato (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) members, for instance, are looking at increasing defence budgets. At
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