Report on India Pausing Defense Purchases From US ‘False and Fabricated’ – MoD Official
A 50-kilowatt-class laser mounted on a US Army Stryker vehicle , shown during a live-fire exercise at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. Part of the U.S. Army’s Directed Energy Maneuver-Short Range Air Defense, or DE M-SHORAD.
A report on India pausing defense purchases from the US is ‘false & fabricated’, a senior MoD official tells Sputnik. “The news reports on India pausing the talks related to defence purchases with the US are false and fabricated. It is clarified that the various cases of procurement are being progressed as per the extant procedures,“ the official said. Earlier on Friday, Reuters reported, citing three Indian officials, that New Delhi has put on hold its plans to purchase new US weapons and aircraft.
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