68% of Indian military equipment is ‘vintage’ say officials

UK Defense Journal ^ | April 2, 2018 | George Allison

[C19fan]

Indian officers and officials expressed concerns before an Indian parliamentary committee on defence, service chiefs revealed dire shortfalls in equipment and investment.

According to an article that appeared in the Asia section of the print edition of ‘The Economist’:

“Judging from the three services’ own testimony, the airing of such grievances is long overdue. MPs were told that some 68% of the army’s equipment, much of which was first supplied by the Soviet Union, such as BMP-2 personnel carriers and Shilka anti-aircraft guns, may be described as “vintage”

[Cronos]

But I am sure there are call centers to provide assistance when equipment fails.

you're mixing up different things -- the CCs are private enterprises, with far less red tape

Logistics must be a headache in the Indian army where they purchase weapons from many different countries although Soviet Union/Russian is the supplier. - actually they've pretty much stopped that in new purchases. They don't buy American, but heavily buy Israeli and Russian.