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Mahindra ASLV for IA's Northern Command

MARCOS in black multicam

IN's MARCOS (left & center) training with US SOF (right)

India Set to Seal $200M Akash Air Defence Deal with Philippines Philippines nears $200M deal for India's Akash missiles amid South China Sea tensions with China. Read more at Dynamite News Philippines wants to buy Akash missile system from India New Delhi: After acquiring BrahMos missiles...

Armenia recently procured these

90 for the Army and 66 for Airforce

Long-Range Multi Function Radar (LRMFR) has been developed by DRDO's LRDE arm and is currently undergoing tests on INS Anvesh (missile range instrumentation ship). LRMFR is eventually set to replace MF-STAR on all IN ships

They've come a long way in terms of LCA's build quality

Astra BVRAAM test fired from Tejas Mk-1

Since the prototypes are under production, everything you see out there is really just the overall project cost for Mk-2. Mk-1 & Mk-1A both had reports stating they'd be offered ~$40-45m in the export market...

This is unlikely to happen. At best, it'd be a couple of more squadrons of Rafales for IAF along with 36 Rafale-Ms' for IN If you obtained this price from the recent report of 97 Mk-1As' costing $7.8B, that isn't the unit cost since it potentially includes long term maintenance and spares...

LCA Mk-2