Why Some Indian Officials/Politicians love Israel?

Or, Why the DRDO & Indian Scientists are against the deals with Israel?

Oct 12, 2006

The process of acquisition of the Barak missile system from Israel is replete with instances of “violation” of procurement rules, “overlooking” of the opinions of the then Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India A.P.J. Abdul Kalam and the then Defence Secretary T.R. Prasad, and “undue haste” shown by the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Government in clinching the Rs. 1,125-crore deal.

As per the existing norms of procedure of Defence Procurement, 1992, DRDO concurrence was a pre-requisite for acquisition of any weapon system by import. But the DRDO never concurred with the option of importing the Barak anti-missile system during 1998-99, the CBI probe shows.

Procurement rules violated, opinions overlooked in clinching Barak deal process

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In a letter to Manmohan Singh, Communist Party of India-Marxist general secretary Prakash Karat and CPI general secretary A.B. Bardhan said: “We are writing to you regarding the contract for air defence missile systems placed by the MoD (ministry of defence) on Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI). The amount involved is around Rs. 10,000 crore for the supply of around 12 such systems.

“This is surprising considering that such a contract has been given when IAI is already under investigation of the CBI on charges of bribery and corruption for the anti-ship, ship-mounted Barak missile system. We had brought this to your notice in our earlier letter dated March 18, 2008 about the kickbacks and use of middleman in the Barak deal, which are in violation of Indian laws,” the letter said.

The defence ministry said in December it had decided against procuring the Trishul missile system developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and would instead purchase IAI’s Spyder missiles.

[My Comment: Now you know why Indian defence scientists hate deals with Israel. Indians make better ant-missiles, while their bosses want to buy inferior items from Israel]

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