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Due to the operation vermilion, India’s defense budget could increase Rs 50,000 crore, which has surpassed Rs 7 lakh crore. The fund will increase the purchase of R&D and weapons amidst increasing tension with Pakistan.
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India’s defense budget may increase by Rs 50,000 crore Operation vermilionGovernment sources told NDTV on Friday morning. The source said that the boost provided through the supplementary budget will take the overall defense allocation for Rs 7 lakh crore.
On February 1, a record of Rs 6.81 lakh crore for the armed forces was separated in the 2025/26 budget presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Citraman. This year’s allocation was already an increase of 9.2 percent in 2024/25 from Rs 6.22 lakh crore.
Increased budget – approval for which will be sought in the winter session of Parliament – possibly used for research and development, and the purchase of weapons, ammunition and other essential equipment, sources told NDTV.
The focus of the Narendra Modi administration has been focused since Defense 2014; The Ministry of Defense was given Rs 2.29 lakh crore in the first year of the BJP government in 2014/15.
The current allocation is the highest among all ministries and 13 percent of the total budget.
India’s defense readiness and (probability) increased Pahgam Terror Attack And India’s military reaction – Operation vermilion – Terrorist camps were targeted in that Pak and Pak-Quiz Kashmir.
OP Sindoor spotlight the strategic wonder for advanced air defense systems compared to the famous ‘Iron Dome’ of the Indian Army – Israeli’s famous ‘Iron Dome’. The spotlight has also been on homegron elements in the network, including the Akash Missile Defense System.
NDTV explains. Conservator of Akash: India’s air defense that outfox
Since then the armed forces have also tested the Bhargavastra-a new, low-cost, counter-drain system in ‘Harad Kill’ mode. The micro-Racket used in this system conducted a harsh tests at the sequed firing range in Gopalpur, Odisha this week, and the tests fulfilled all the objectives.
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Meanwhile, NDTV, a former defense research and development organization scientist Dr. Talked to Prahlada Ramaro, who developed the sky system, which can also prevent highly psychiatry aircraft such as the United States’s built supersonic F -16 fighter jets that are among those Pak pilots.
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Dr. Ramrao told NDTV that his tagline for Akash is’sara akash hamara‘Or’ The whole sky is ours’.
After the 100-hour Indo-Pak ‘War’, Defense Minister Rajnath Singh pushed for more domestic production of defense equipment, arguing that this is a long-term solution.
“If we buy defense equipment from other countries, it means that we are outsourced and leaving our safety in someone else’s hands. This may not be a long -term solution.”
Pahalgam Attack and Om Sindoor
Militants killed 26 people, several citizens in Jammu and Kashmir tourist hotspots last month from a proxy of Pak-based Lashkar-e-Taiba, which resented.
Basaron Valley near Pahalgam in Jammu and Kashmir, where terrorists killed 26 people.
Following an early fleet of non-monitoring measures, including suspending the important Indus Water Treaty, India launched the OP Sindoor-Primary Camps in nine terrorist camps in Pakistan and Pak-Kabj Kashmir.
Read | 24 strikes, 9 Terror Camps, 70 killed: India rained hell for 25 minutes
The Pak Army reported that their bases would be killed and warned against vengeance, replied by firing a barrage of drones and missiles at Indian military facilities and civil population centers. Most of them were either shot or neutralized by India’s advanced air defense network, including indigenously developed sky and Russian -made S -400.
India then launched more accurate attacks, destroyed the Pak radar system and damaged the Pakistan Air Force bases, motivating Islamabad to reach for a ceasefire.
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On Monday, in his first speech since the OP vermilion, Prime Minister Narendra Modi placed terrorists in Pakistan, who supports terror activities, on notice, saying that India would strike again to protect its territory and citizens, and the principle on Delhi’s terror had changed forever.
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Shri Modi also said that India will not talk to Pakistan on Kashmir besides neglecting the terrorist infrastructure in that country and arranging for illegal occupied Kashmir.
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