New Delhi: India has made a big leap in the defence sector in the last few years and is now preparing to increase it further in the coming years. India is preparing to sell weapons and drones etc. worth up to Rs 35,000 crore to many countries of the world including Africa. On the sidelines of the defence exhibition, Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has given information about these preparations.
He said that in this exhibition, India will show the power of indigenously made weapons, its research on emerging technologies and equipment like swarm drones to the whole world. Along with this, India has also achieved great success in terms of Artificial Intelligence. Now India is trying to export these weapons and technologies to Indian Ocean countries and African countries. In this sequence, India is preparing to increase this export to Rs 35,000 crore by 2025. Rajnath Singh, who is engaged in talks with his counterparts in African countries, said that our goal is to achieve this big figure by 2025.
Rajnath Singh said that last year also, India exported defence material worth Rs 13,000 crore. Defence Secretary Ajay Kumar said a total of 451 agreements are scheduled to be signed at this year's expo. These include the launch of products and technology transfer. Ahead of the expo that began on Tuesday, the Union Defence Minister said That India has succeeded in joining the top 25 exporters, overtaking the world's largest arms importer.
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