Implosion (48 page)

12.
https://ridingtheelephant.wordpress.com/2010/02/23/the-gun-that-has-crippled-the-equipping-of-india%E2%80%99s-armed-forces-is-%E2%80%9Cinnocent%E2%80%9D/

13.
Gurmeet Kanwal,
India’s Military Modernization: Plans And Strategic Underpinnings,
The National Bureau of Asian Research, Washington DC, September 2012,
http://www.nbr.org/downloads/pdfs/Outreach/NBR_IndiaCaucus_September2012.pdf

14.
James Hardy, ‘India’s Defense Procurement Bungles’,
The Diplomat
, 27 October 2013,
http://thediplomat.com/2013/10/27/indias-defense-procurement-bungles-2/

15.
‘With no Indian orders, BAE Systems starts shutdown of M777 gun factory’,
Business Standard
, 18 October 2013,
http://www.business-standard.com/article/economy-policy/with-no-indian-orders-bae-systems-starts-shutdown-of-m777-gun-factory-113101800028_1.html

16.
Government media release on
http://pib.nic.in/newsite/erelease.aspx?relid=82906
. This news website report also has more information on pending orders and production
http://www.rediff.com/news/report/one-hundred-seventy-one-pilots-39-civilians-killed-so-far-in-482-mig-crashes/20120502.htm

17.
‘MiG-21 not widow-maker but trusted flying companion’,
The Times of India
, 5 May 2013
http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-05-05/india/39042282_1_pilot-error-aircraft-mig-21s

18.
Ajai Shukla, ‘IAF crashes lose one fighter squadron every 2 yrs’,
Broadsword
, 21 March 2013
http://ajaishukla.blogspot.in/2013/03/iaf-crashes-lose-one-fighter-squadron.html

19.
Ajai Shukla, INS Vikrant’s first victory: being built from Indian steel,
Broadsword,
8 August 2013,
http://ajaishukla.blogspot.in/2013/08/ins-vikrants-first-victory-being-built.html
and
http://ajaishukla.blogspot.in/2013/08/an-eagle-in-borrowed-feathers.html

20.
Ajai Shukla, ‘The voyage of the Vikrant – The aircraft carrier is a result of the Indian Navy’s quest for an affordable but potent vessel’,
Business Standard
, 16 August 2013,
http://www.business-standard.com/article/beyond-business/the-voyage-of-the-vikrant-113081601151_1.html

21.
In conversation with JE, August 2013

22.
Report no. PA 5 of 2008, Union Government, Defence Services, Air Force and Navy Performance Audit, CAG of India,
http://www.agap.cag.gov.in/GSSA/PDF_Files/brochure_on_CAG_Audit_Reports.pdf

23.
SIPRI (www.sipri.org) produces the SIPRI Arms Transfers Database
http://www.sipri.org/databases/armstransfers
of international defence trade figures with Trend Indicator Values (TIVs) for country-by-country imports and exports based on deliveries at constant 1990 prices –
http://armstrade.sipri.org/armstrade/html/export_values.php
– with an explanation on
http://www.sipri.org/databases/armstransfers/background

24.
US-India Business Council estimate, April 2013

25.
https://ridingtheelephant.wordpress.com/2011/04/28/india-takes-a-nam-route-on-11bn-fighter-contract/

26.
‘India investment in the US 2008-2010’, FICCI-Ernest & Young, June 2010,
http://203.200.89.92/invindia/indian_investment_studies.pdf

27.
In conversation with JE March 2013

28.
Manoj Joshi, ‘The record of our arms industry remains one of failure and disappointment’,
Mail Today
, 30 April 2013,
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/indiahome/indianews/article-2307125/THE-BIGGER-PICTURE-The-record-Indias-arms-industry-remains-failure-disappointment.html#ixzz2Rwjv4hIR

29.
Discussions on ‘Chatham House rules’ at the Observer Research Foundation, Delhi, April 2013

30.
Commodore C. Uday Bhaskar is former officiating Director of Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi (IDSA)

31.
‘Three Years Of UPA II – An Open letter to Defence Minister’, C. Uday Bhaskar, 20 May 2012,
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/progressive-interactions/92OPy5fxRgY

32.
Stephen P. Cohen and Sunil Dasgupta,
Arming Without Aiming: India’s Military Modernization
, hardback, August 2010, paperback with new preface, pp ix-x, February 2013, Brookings Institution Press, Washington DC: 2013,
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/arming-without-aiming-stephen-p-cohen/1101141747
. Penguin India edition planned

33.
‘Indigenising defence production: The necessary goal is’,
Business Standard
and
Blogspot,
8 March 2013
http://ajaishukla.blogspot.in/

34.
‘Creating a Vibrant Domestic Defence Manufacturing Sector’, as above

35.
Annual Survey of Industries, Ministry of Finance, New Delhi

36.
Manoj Joseph, ‘The record of our arms industry remains one of failure and disappointment’,
Mail Today
, 10 April 2013,
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/indiahome/indianews/article-2307125/THE-BIGGER-PICTURE-The-record-Indias-arms-industry-remains-failure-disappointment.html

37.
‘The secret world of DRDO’,
New Indian Express
, 2 September 2012,
http://newindianexpress.com/magazine/article598145.ece

38.
Ajai Shukla, ‘India’s Defence Industrial Base is Changing with the Times’, published November 2013 by the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies (RUSI), London,
http://www.rusi.org/publications/newsbrief/

39.
Ibid

40.
‘Tejas will not be ready for war before end-2015’,
The Times of India
, 4 June 2013
,
http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-06-04/india/39739543_1_tejas-lca-20-tejas-tejas-mark-ii

41.
Ajai Shukla, ‘Making the Tejas fly’,
Business Standard
, 11 December 2012,
http://www.business-standard.com/article/opinion/ajai-shukla-making-the-tejas-fly-112121100124_1.html

42.
‘India Reverses Gear, Puts Arjun Tank Back in Production’,
Defense Industry Daily
, 28 January 2013
http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/india-plans-to-cap-arjun-tank-production-04984/

43.
Ajai Shukla, ‘Making the Tejas fly’, as above

44.
‘Kelkar Committee submits report on defence acquisition’, MoD press release, 5 April 2005,
http://pib.nic.in/newsite/erelease.aspx?relid=8386

45.
http://ridingtheelephant.wordpress.com/2007/06/07/doors-to-open-for-india%E2%80%99s-defense-industry-jewels/

46.
JE, ‘Manufacturing takes off in India’,
Fortune
magazine, 19 October 2007,
http://money.cnn.com/2007/10/18/news/international/India_manufacturing.fortune/

47.
‘Typewriters about to become a page in history’,
Business Standard
, 17 April 2011
http://www.business-standard.com/article/beyond-business/typewriters-about-to-become-a-page-in-history-111041700035_1.html

48.
‘India’s defence industry, The private sector to the rescue, Technology outguns bureaucracy’,
The Economist
, 6 April 2006,
http://www.economist.com/node/6775113

49.
‘TU Leaders Meet Defence Minister And Demand “Review Kelkar Committee Recommendations”‘,
People’s Democracy
, CPI(M), 3 June 2007,
http://pd.cpim.org/2007/0603/06102007_kelkar.htm

50.
‘Rafale Partners with Reliance’, Indian Defence.com, 2 December 2012,
http://www.indiandefence.com/forums/indian-air-force/14774-rafale-partners-reliance.html
and
Will Mukesh Ambani’s defence aerospace gambit pay off for RIL?, Economic Times
, 12 May 2013,
http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2013-05-12/news/39187189_1_indian-aerospace-reliance-industries-ltd-boeing-india

51.
http://ridingtheelephant.wordpress.com/2010/08/16/indian-industry-sensibly-wants-curbs-on-big-fdi-in-defence-manufacturing/

52.
‘More than 26% FDI in defence was allowed since 2006’,
Economic Times
, 18 July 2013,
http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2013-07-18/ne ws/40657308_1_fdi-policy-defence-procurement-policy-defence-equipment

53.
http://ridingtheelephant.wordpress.com/2012/07/02/indian-private-sector-gets-first-big-defence-industry-opportunity/

54.
‘Why government has failed to encourage private sector in defence production’,
Economic Times
, 19 March 2013
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/news-by-company/corporate-trends/why-government-has-failed-to-encourage-private-sector-in-defence-production/articleshow/19052685.cms

55.
‘DAC Approves Major Changes in DPP to Encourage Indian Defence Industry’, Ministry of Defence media statement, 20 April 2013,
http://pib.nic.in/newsite/erelease.aspx?relid=94799

56.
‘Salient Features of Defence Procurement Procedure 2013’, MoD media statement, 1 June 2013
http://pib.nic.in/newsite/erelease.aspx?relid=96361

57.
S.S. Gill,
The Pathology of Corruption
, p. 48-49, HarperCollins Publishers India, Delhi, 1998-9

58.
‘Operation West End: A story of how the suitcase people are compromising Indian defence’
Tehelka
’s transcripts,
http://archive.tehelka.com/channels/Investigation/investigation1.htm

59.
http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/hc-grants-bail-to-bangaru-laxman-in-fake-defence-deal-case/article3987524.ece

60.
‘CBI secures one conviction among 22 defence cases since 2004’,
The Times of India
, 23 February 2013,
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/CBI-secures-one-conviction-among-22-defence-cases-since-2004/articleshow/18636470.cms

61.
Information gathered in many interviews by JE

62.
Ibid

63.
‘Bofors: The Complete Timeline’, tracking events from 1985 to 2012,
NewsLaundry
blog,
http://www.newslaundry.com/2012/06/bofors-the-complete-timeline/

64.
JE,Gandhi’s new broom fails to sweep clean,
Financial Times
, 6 May 1987

65.
‘Ottavio Quattrocchi dies in Milan, Bofors buried’,
Hindustan Times
, 13 July 2013,
http://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/Europe/Ottavio-Quattrocchi-dies-in-Milan-Bofors-buried/Article1-1092062.aspx

66.
Ibid

67.
‘Arms sales in India, Scandalous procurement, Round up the usual suspects’,
The Economist
, 19 October 2006,
http://www.economist.com/node/8058443

68.
Admiral S.M. Nanda,
The Man who Bombed Karachi
, HarperCollins India, 2005

69.
‘The Man In The Middle – The Nandas’ links with the establishment helped them get around the ban on arms brokers’,
Outlook
magazine, 28 March 2001,
http://m.outlookindia.com/story.aspx?sid=4&aid=211156

70.
‘Key missile deal agent has stake in Sukhoi’,
DNA
, 7 April 2009,
http://www.dnaindia.com/india/1245901/report-key-missile-deal-agent-has-stake-in-sukhoi

71.
‘Arms dealer Bunny linked to Finmeccanica,
The Times of India
, 16 February 2013,
http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-02-16/india/37133043_1_defence-industry-vvip-helicopter-sudhir-choudhrie

72.
Deccan Aviation Prospectus, 31 May 2006,
http://www.sebi.gov.in/dp/deccandrhp.pdf

73.
Group website
http://www.ccalphagroup.co.uk/about_us.html

74.
‘Liberal Democrat donor “was in arms deal probe”‘, BBC, 17 September 2010,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/9010172.stm

75.
‘CBI chargesheets arms dealer Abhishek Verma, wife, firm & ex-IAF man in OS Act case’, PTI, 30 November 2012
http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-11-30/india/35484012_1_c-edmond-allen-anca-maria-neacsu-verma-and-anca
, and
Tehelka
magazine, 3 March 2013,
http://www.tehelka.com/abhishek-verma-the-dealers-deceit/

76.
‘India & Israel’s Barak SAM Development Project(s)’,
Defense Industry Daily
, 24 January 2013,
http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/india-israel-introducing-mr-sam-03461/

77.
‘AgustaWestland AW-101: A choppy deal’,
Business Standard
, 16 February 2013, and on Ajai Shukla’s blog
http://ajaishukla.blogspot.in/2013/02/agustawestland-aw-101-choppy-deal.html