Submarines to choppers: A sneak peek into Modi’s defence agenda

Major decisions and policy announcements aimed at beefing up the country’s defence are going to be on the front burner of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the next few weeks.

Multi-billion dollar deals for acquisition of submarines, attack helicopters, heavy-lift helicopters, missiles and fighter aircraft are on Modi’s radar screen.

In fact, the Prime Minister’s foreign policy in near term too will have heavy defence agenda, be it in terms of his forthcoming foreign visits to Japan and the United States or in-bound trips of leaders of major powers like Russia during the rest of the year.

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