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Foreword
Dr. A. Didar Singh
Secretary General, FICCI
India has emerged as the worlds largest arms buyer over the last couple of years and is in the process
of replacing an ageing Soviet-era military hardware with modern military weapons from major defence
manufacturers such as USA, Israel, Russia, UK and France. The Indian defence sector is set to embark ona significant growth path in the near future as a result of a slew of initiatives taken by the Ministry of
Defence, such as increase in FDI, delicensing of non-lethal and dual use items and a declared export
strategy. With the announcement of the Make in India campaign by the government, the
manufacturing sector is likely to gain momentum to which the defence sector expected to make a
significant contribution.
FICCI has been a votary of a vibrant defence manufacturing base with a level playing field for the
private sector. Ever since the defence sector was officially opened to the private sector in 2001, the
Indian industry has welcomed the move and has expressed its desire to repeat the success stories of
the space, atomic energy and automotive sectors in defence. This strategic sector till date hasprogressed slowly and India has taken gradual strides in evolving industry and investor-friendly
policies. Defence has been accorded the highest priority by the present government with the Honble
Prime Minister himself emphasizing the commitment and focus on defence on every major occasion.
The government is further streamlining the acquisition process by simplifying the Defence
Procurement Procedure to eliminate red tape and facilitate speedier acquisition for meeting the
operational requirements of our forces.
FICCI has been at the helm of the policy dialogue with the Ministry of Defence, user and other
stakeholders towards establishing a modern Defence Industrial Complex and many of its
suggestions have been built into the policy framework.
The FICCI-Centrum Report has highlighted the recent initiatives undertaken by the government to
encourage industry, to come forward to partake of the growth of this strategic sector. I believe that this
report will help readers to gain a 3600 perspective on the Aerospace & Defence sector and
opportunities in India. The snapshot of a few selected defence companies (representing Public, Private
and MSME segment) has given valuable information which can be used by corporates to analyze the
sector from an investors perspective.
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Foreword
Chandir Gidwani
Founder, Centrum Group
Indias security environment is defined by a complex interplay of regional and global imperatives and
challenges. As India seeks to achieve transformative national growth and development internally, we
have to pursue a robust defence strategy and policies which aim to address the wide spectrum ofconventional and non-conventional security challenges faced by the country.
We at Centrum believe it is time for Aerospace & Defence Sector to be given its long over-due
recognition as a core industry as is the case in most developed countries. With the Honorable Prime
Ministers call for Make in India we believe the national priorities have been set and the Aerospace &
Defence Sector will meet the challenge in building a vibrant Defence Industrial base in India. This
would also encourage and attract investments in indigenous strategic Defence programs and the
Indian Defence industry to be .
Emphasis should be given on public-private collaboration to bring in an efficient system in place and
promote competitive environment whichhelp in setting up defence industrial base in the Simultaneously, there is a need to identify areas and critical technologies which are essential
robust Defence capabilities and to develop such technologies indigenously.
This is possible only through an investor friendly regulatory regime that provides for technological self-
reliance in defence systems and encourages investment in developing critical infrastructure for the
Aerospace and Defence industry. The report is also a ready compendium of the opportunities based on
the current policy framework and assessing the future demand-supply scenario besides showcasing
the way forward.
I am sure stakeholders across the value chain of Aerospace & Defence Sector will find this report useful.
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About Centrum
Focused Approach to Defence Sector Advisory
Centrum Capital Ltd. is a diversified financial services company listed on Bombay Stock Exchangewith market capitalization of Rs8bn1. Centrums primary area of business is:
Syndication (Debt & Equity)
Mergers & Acquisition Advisory
Joint Venture Advisory
Institutional Broking
Portfolio Management Services
Wealth Management
Money Exchange
Defence Sector is covered extensively at Centrum as we believe the sector presents a hugeopportunity for Indian players in various segments. This coverage is under the guidance of Brig.Chacko Ipe (Retd) and supported by Sandeep Upadhyay and his team. We have handled advisory
mandates in the Defence sector for leading players across various products including: India Entry Strategy
Joint Venture
Fund Raising
Some transaction closures in the past across sectors:
Leading Defence Company of USA India Entry Strategy
Adlabs Imagica (Theme Park) Debt Syndication of INR Rs14,000 Mn
Adlabs Imagica (Theme Park) Equity Syndication
Hindustan Dorr Oliver (EPC) Debt Restructuring
Dighi Port Limited Debt advisory of INR 15,500 Mn.
Transpole Logistics Raised PE of ~INR 70 mn from Fidelity
Hemavathy Power and Light Ltd M&A advisory for 100% sell out to Greenko Group Plc Indrajit Infrastructure Debt advisory for 80 MW power project
Soham Renewable Energy India Private Equity
Aqua Logistics Lead Manager for the IPO
Aegis Logistics Advisor for raising Equity
Innovative B2B Logistics Raised debt for capital expansion
1As on 29thJanuary 2015
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Today India, Tomorrow World Secular Growth SectorAfter growing in line with nominal GDP in the last decade, we believe Indian companies in the defence sector (in
aggregate) are poised for sustained high growth in the next decade and address an opportunity that could reach$41bn in size by FY22 (7xFY14). We believe this will be driven by both higher domestic and external demand
unlike in the past when it was entirely by the former. While higher indigenous content (currently at 30%) in the
Indian defence capital spend will be the near term driver, we expect exports (hitherto negligible) to be a key long
term factor (offsets to begin with, cost effectiveness driven outsourcing later on). We believe fiscal constraints in
developed markets over the next 5-10 years will put defence spending under pressure. With intensifying
competition between US and European systems integrators, price pressures are a certainty. Over the past 4-5
years we have seen an explosion in partnerships (JVs and MOUs) between Indian and global players (likely due to
relaxation of controls on export of defence technology by the US and other countries and also by lack of choices
as China is still on the banned list). These partnerships will exploit offset and indigenization related demand,
near term. These would also set the stage for India becoming a critical part of the supply chain of global players
for components and sub-assemblies, driving export growth, long term. There is evidence that such a move is
already on. We believe India has some of the basic ingredients (large and relatively low cost engineering talent
pool, comfort of western nations with India from a geo-political perspective) to deliver on this opportunity but
will have to significantly improve on some others (technology, lack of a defence manufacturing ecosystem, etc).
Besides, we believe the nature of warfare is becoming more software intensive, which plays into the strength of
India with IT Sector Growth and its diversified presence. Post 10-15-year learning curve we expect some Indian
companies to move up the value chain to become independent systems integrators across technology-design-
system integration value chain in their own right or be part of significant consortia.
The opportunity has critical mass, good growth and longevity: As it repairs its finances, we expect US to play a less
active military role in the Asian region in the foreseeable future. This will coincide with the economic and militaryascendancy of China that could lead to greater tensions with India. Already China has widened the lead with India in anumber of areas of defence (3.5x Indias military spend in 2013 vs. 1.5x in 2000). With troubled borders, India will have to
increase its defence spend/NGDP to 2-2.5% (vs. FY14 spend of 1.79%) to close the gap. This is also required to correctunder spending on capex in the last 20 years. While the revenue part (60%) of the defence spend is largely internal, thecapex (~40%) is largely import focused (70%+, India is among worlds largest arms importers) leading to a relatively
small domestic defence sector with Defence PSUs (HAL, BEL, BEML, BDL, MDL, GRSE) having a significant share. Privatecompanies, restricted from defence production until 2001, seem to have caught up lately. We believe the low base sets
the stage for strong growth ahead for private companies. Credible defence initiatives have been taken over two decadesby large industrial groups like Tatas, L&T, and in the past decade by M&M, Bharat Forge, Godrej, Pipavav, Rolta, amongothers.
Competitive moats are fairly wide: Technology is the key driver of competitiveness. For Indian companies this has to
be accessed either through DRDO, a foreign JV partner or developed through internal R&D spend. This we believe putslarger Indian companies (both PSU and private) in a significantly better position to be system integrators compared tosmaller ones that will assume tierised roles. The role of MSMEs will be significant as they are houses of innovations andchampions of niche technology and products. These niche technology and products along with system integrators will
play a critical role in building Indias defence manufacturing base.With homegrown technology developed in a few segments and relatively under-developed in others, credibility andflexibility of foreign partners and their governments on flow of technologies and joint development will be winning
factors for Indian players. However, in the long term, just as in the pharma, automotive and IT sectors we believe Indiahas the capacity to be an R&D base. Also, with global systems integrators restructuring in the new normal defence
spending era, and looking to diversify revenue streams, there will be many opportunities to buy assets in the developedworld. Indian companies with deep pockets can potentially hasten their process of becoming systems integrators by
buying some of these entities (eg: Mahindras bought Gipps Aero Australia and Aerostaff Australia, Piramal boughtBluebird Aero).
Exports to be a large opportunity; driven by significant cuts in US spending: Of the $1.7trn defence spend (2013
SIPRI estimate), ~55% comes from the developed world with 37% from the US alone. With pressure to control fiscaldeficits and lower Debt/GDP ratios, we believe defence spending will be a major casualty. Despite the financial crisis in2008, defence spending sustained because of Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Post that, US indicated a cut of $450bn to
$1.1trn over 10-12 years if other deficit reduction plans do not materialize. Western nations will however not want tocompromise their national security even under these circumstances. This will lead to higher level of outsourcing as
defence forces world-wide will seek better price from vendors.
Opportunity for Investors will open up: We believe opportunities will expand both in PSUs (as government divests)and private companies (as conglomerates spin off defence entities, new pure play defence entities execute well andbecome larger) for financial investors. Defence sector has size, steady growth, longevity of opportunity, returns ratios,
etc which will work in its favor compared to many other sectors in India. We believe large Indian private conglomerateswith varied skill-sets currently housed in multiple unconnected subsidiaries will pounce on the opportunity. Frugalengineering and manufacturing practices, design skills and competence in software, metallurgy, understanding ofexport markets, ability to build relationships with foreign government will be the winners in the long term.
This sector report Is prepared
jointly by:
Federation of Indian Chambers
of Commerce and Industry
(FICCI)
AND
Centrum Capital Ltd
6thFeb 2015
Sector Report
INDIA
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Executive Summary
Indian Defence Sector Secular Growth Story
Indian defence sector is at the cusp of an inflexion point wherein the future growth will be propelled
by indigenous manufacturing both for domestic & global clients. We believe the sector will witness
strong growth over the next decade due to its current size, longevity, and competitive advantages.
Indian defence spend is large when compared to other spends in the economy but is under-represented in terms of market capitalization on listed stock exchanges. The defence spend hasbeen in the 2-2.5% range of the nominal GDP in the past decade while market capitalization ofIndian defence companies has never been above 0.7% of the GDP at any given point in time. Thekey reasons for this are:
A large part of spend (60% currently) is revenue expenditure which is internal in nature. Unlikein the US where some non-core functions are outsourced, Indian armed forces have always
relied on doing these functions internally. We see these functions changing over the next 5 - 10years though we believe this area is unlikely to grow as fast as the capex.
Of the capex (40% of the budgeted spend) about 70% is imported in fact India is among the
largest importers of weapon systems globally. This is reflected in lower revenues of Indiancorporates.
Major defence PSUs are HAL, BEL, BEML, Mazagon Docks Limited and Bharat Dynamics Limited.
Of these, BEL & BEML are listed on Indian stock exchanges BSE & NSE.
Large private sector firms are all part of listed entities like L&T, Tata Power, Tata Motors, M&M,Bharat Forge, or unlisted unlisted holding companies like Tata Sons.
However we see this situation changing over the next 10-15 years. Our belief is based on thefollowing:
We expect defence spend to move closer to 2.25% (from the lowest ever number in FY14 at1.79%) of Nominal GDP as US repairs its financials. This we believe will be accompanied by an
assertive and high spending China, which India will try to counter by increasing its own level ofspending. While the Indian fiscal may not be in the best shape currently, we believe relativelybetter growth and increase in Tax/GDP ratio post implementation of tax reforms, widening oftax net and removal of exemptions, will give it fiscal firepower.
We believe the Capex/opex mix will shift towards capex in the coming decade. We expect the
mix will shift towards 50:50 or higher vs. 60:40 in favor of opex now. We believe the focus willbe on smaller, smarter and a more effective armed force.
o We believe indigenization will take center stage and gather pace going forward. Government
took a number of steps in this direction, by opening up defence production to the private sectorand allowing 26% FDI in 2001 and defined categorization hierarchy in favour of indigenousprocurement in 2013. Recently, the FDI limit was further raised from 26 percent to composite
cap of 49 percent (FDI and FII) through the Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) routewith full Indian management and control. With technology transfers becoming easier in recenttimes, we believe this will gather pace. DPP 2013 furthers the cause of developing domesticdefence sector by prioritizing procurement from Indian companies and buying from globalcompanies as the last resort.
Under the Make in India initiative introduced by Honble Prime Minister Narendra Modi,simplification of the Make procedure, financial incentives in terms of a tax holiday andincentivizing R&D were announced. GoI has streamlined the offset policy with innovativecomponents by giving thrust to MSME sector and streamlining export procedures. It has alsobeen decided to promote defence and aerospace exports through an export promotion body.We believe that this initiative will incentivize private players to invest more into Aerospace andDefence sector and help exports grow.
The offset clause (which stipulates that 30-50% of the armament purchase value should bespent on buying Indian components, sub-systems and products) introduced in capital purchaseagreements with foreign defence players will ensure that an ecosystem of suppliers is built
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domestically. Besides helping build domestic capabilities, it will bolster exports in the longterm.
We also believe India will become a large sourcing base for components and sub-systems in theyears to come for foreign systems integrators. We believe this will happen as these companiesface price pressure in the years ahead as the large arms consumers US and the westerndeveloped world seek cut backs on defence spending to improve their financial position and
rein in fiscal deficits and debt/GDP ratios. Already a number of JVs have been signed betweenIndian and foreign players. We also see initial signs of global players setting up R&D divisions inIndia and sourcing parts of final products from Indian vendors.
We believe India has some of the basic ingredients (large and relatively low cost (Frugal)engineering talent pool, comfort of western nations with India from a geo-political perspective)
to exploit this opportunity but it will have to significantly improve on some others (technology,lack of a defence manufacturing ecosystem, etc). Also, we believe the nature of warfare isbecoming more software intensive, which plays into the strength of India considering IT sector
growth in the past two decades.
In the next 5-10 years we expect Indian players to become systems integrators. We believe thisprocess could be hastened by inorganic initiatives by groups with deep pockets (L&T, Tata,
Mahindra & Mahindra, Reliance Industries, Bharat Forge, etc) who may pick up assets divestedby foreign defence players as they restructure and become trimmer (eg: Piramal boughtBluebird Aero of Israel in 2012).
While our expectation on defence exports ($17bn by FY22) may seem audacious consideringthe very small base, we have been in similar situation in other sectors too in the past (IT services,Pharma and Auto). Catalysts have brought out inherent strengths of the Indian corporate
sector.
a. In the case of IT services it was Y2K phenomenon and the development of theinternet (which made offshore delivery possible in large quantities). Later, it wasthe moving up the value chain from pure IT to IT enabled - Engineering Servicesoffering high-skill high-talent pool for offloading design and engineering servicesto India.
b. In the case of the Pharma sector it was the genericisation of the space as patentsexpired in the developed world.
c. In the case of the Auto sector, it began with auto ancillaries and then lowemployee costs combined with an extensive supplier base led India to become theworlds small car hub.
Recently, during the US President visit, Indo-US ties reached a new high with President BarackObama and Prime Minister Narendra Modis announcing the renewal of the expansive defenseties for another 10 years. India and the US decided to kick off joint manufacturing of fourrelatively modest military products and explore the development of two more high-end
technologies. The two nations agreed to step up joint combat exercises, maritime securityendeavors, intelligence-sharing mechanisms and military exchanges.
All these involve active support of the government through appropriate incentives.
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Financial Investors Should Look Forward to Increased Activity & Stable
Returns
Significant wealth creation likely: While current investible universe is very small, we believe
opportunities exist in both the PSUs (as government divests) and private companies (asconglomerates spin off defence entities, new pure play defence entities execute well and become
larger). In our opinion, this is a sector where size, steady growth, longevity of opportunity, returnsratios, etc. will work in its favor compared to other sectors in the Indian investible universe. Webelieve large Indian private conglomerates that bring varied skillsets currently housed in multipleunconnected subsidiaries will pounce on the opportunity frugal engineering and manufacturingpractices, design and software skills, expertise in metallurgy, understanding of export markets,ability to build relationships with foreign governments, will be winners in the long term. We seecredible defence initiatives being taken up by large industrial groups like Tatas, Larsen Toubro,Mahindras, Bharat Forge, Rolta, SKIL Infra, among others. Besides these we believe PSU entities likeHAL, BEL, BEML, BDL, MDL will also be significant beneficiaries.
We believe investors will have to look at the following points when considering investments:
That the opportunity will move up 7x over the next 8 years; Growing at rates higher than NGDP,this sector could be dubbed a growth sector attracting premium valuations. While some
amount of competition driven margin pressure is likely, earnings growth should be higher thanNGDP, if not in line with industry growth.
We believe return ratios of some leaders should be significantly better than those of most othercompanies/sectors in the market.
Risks of investing in the sector
Significant slippages on the fiscal front, lengthy procurement and evaluation processes andfrequent changes in procurement organization, controversies related to corruption and disputesover short listing in competitive bids and public private partnerships will delay acquisition plans ofthe armed forces and impact timing of revenues and earnings of companies. With a stablegovernment in place and its commitment on modernization and indigenization of the armed forces,
we hope acquisition programs will be executed in a time bound manner.
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Deals in Aerospace & Defence Sector
Though deals in the defence space are very few, we believe, this sector will witness increasing
number of deals as regulatory policies are streamlined driving the overall defence sector.
Exhibit 1: M&A Deals in the Defence Sector
Target Acquirer Industry Year
Amt
(US$
mn)
Aviation Software Devlp &
ConsultTCS IT Products (Aviation) 2004 N.A.
Spectrum Infotech Larsen & Toubro Defense Electronics 2006
Avalon Aviation Aptech Aviation Training 2006 N.A.
AST Security Equipment MKU Defense Products 2008 5
VISaer IBS Software Services IT Services (Aviation) 2008 4.5Mahindra Aerospace Ltd &
Kotak Private Equity
Buyout of Aerostaff Australia
& GippsAero
High-precision aircraft components
and assemblies2009 $35mn
Indamer European Aviation Hold. Aviation (MRO) 2009 N.A.
Vaksh Steels Pitti Laminations Manufacturing 2011 -
GKN Aerospace Engineering
ServicesQuest Global BPO (Engg. - Aerospace) 2011 N.A.
3B The Fibreglass Company Binani Industries Mfg- Fibre Glass 2012 360Aurora Integrated Systems Tata Advanced Systems IT & ITES 2012 -
Bluebird (Israel) Piramal Enterprise Defence (Tactical UAV Systems) 2012 8
Tesco GO JBM Group Aerospace 2012 N.A.
BF Elbit Advanced Bharat Forge Aerospace & Defence 2013 N.A.Cambric Corp Tata Tech Aerospace & Defence 2013 N.A.
Thales Software India L&T Tech Aerospace & Defence 2014 N.A.
Rangsons Electronics Cyient Elect. & Mfg (ESDM) 2015 NA
Source: Venture Intelligence
Exhibit 2: PE Deals in the Defence Sector
Target Investor Industry Year Amount
(US$ mn)
Astra Microwave Frontline Strategy (29%) Microwave 2002 N.A
Turbotech Precision Eng. Micro-Turbines IFC 2004 0.6Adayana Kubera Partners IT & ITES 2007 20.05Pipavav Defence Citadel, Trinity & 2i Shipping & logistics 2007 77
Delopt Axis Holdings IT & ITES 2007 1.58
Air Works GTI Group Aviation MRO 2007 10
Delopt Axis Holdings IT Services (A&D) 2007 N.A.
Trusted Aero & Engg. Subhkam Ventures Aerospace & Medical Comp 2007 N.A.MTAR Tech Blackstone Defence Tech 2007 65
Dynamatic Tech New Vernon, Others IT & ITES 2008 16.2
Dynaspede Integrated Kotak PE, SIDBI VC Manufacturing 2008 8
Trident Infosol SIDBI VC IT Products (Defense) 2010 3.3Aero Facility India ME Sovereign Fund Aviation MRO 2011 10
Air Works NEA & Elephant Capital Aviation MRO 2011 27
Maini Global Aerospace Pinebridge Aerospace 2011 10
Air Works KKR Aviation MRO 2012 N.A.
Source: Venture Intelligence
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Current Domestic Defence Production is Insufficient
Although private players were allowed entry into the Indian defence market in 2001, they
have struggled to gain significant market share until lately. For the better part of the last
decade, defence PSUs dominated the market and continued to be nominated for almost all
major orders. Compounding the late entry was lack of access to technology from western
countries as export of military technology and dual use technology was banned postNuclear Explosion in 1998. This is one of the main reasons behind domestic industrys lack of
capacity in defence production outside Defence PSUs with a few exceptions in the private
sector. This is despite the private sectors reasonably well-developed manufacturing
capabilities. The AVRO case is a glaring example of public sector stalling private sectors effort
to develop second line of aircraft manufacturing in India. In 2012, to meet the requirement of
the Indian Air Force, the Defence Ministry tendered out 56 AVRO aircrafts for the IAF. The
situation has changed with focused indigenization agenda starting with Defence Production
Policy 2011 and Defence Procurement Procedure of 2013 that mandates hierarchical
categorization of procurement in favor of indigenous buying. Along with it controls by
foreign countries and OEMs on export of military technology to India were eased.
Key Players in Indian Defence Industry
Historically, the government restricted private sector participation because of inherent security-sensitive nature of the industry. As such, the private sector is relatively young and is behind theDPSUs/OFs in terms of infrastructure and DRDO in terms of R&D capability. However, in recent yearsprivate sector has found favor with government and attracted increased interest from foreignsystems integrators. With this combination of legislative support and capital/expertise inflow,private companies have experienced notable growth. They still have room to increase their marketshare. Exhibit 3 shows the current estimates of the market structure in the domestic defenceindustry.
Exhibit 3: Breakup of Domestic Defence Market
Source: Institute for Defence Studies and Analysis
1) Defence Public Sector Undertakings (DPSUs)
The Indian government first created the DPSUs in early 1960s to demonstrate their intention topursue self-sufficiency in defence production. Although the liberalization process in the 1990s led toIndia opening up private participation to 100% in the defence industry in 2001, the public sector stilldominated. Currently, the public sector including OFB accounts for 60% of indigenous defence
manufacturing and around 3/4thof which can be attributed to the 8 DPSUs. DPSUs have significantadvantages over private peers because of their MoD ownership. Critically, they receive the followingbenefits and still enjoy their share of autonomy.
DPSUs
37.5%
SMEs17.5%
Large enterprises
32.5%
OrdnanceFactories
12.5%
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Access to latest technologies through DRDO and till recently, exclusive rights to ToT (transfer oftechnology) from Foreign OEMs
Beneficial tax policies to DPSUs and their foreign partners
Nomination for / Prioritization for defence contracts
Favorable Payment terms (advances as well as multiple progress payments) and risk coverage
by Government for Forex content of nominated contracts
Indexation for Local Inflation
Despite these benefits, DPSUs have grown at best in line with the defence spend and have not been
able to displace foreign systems integrators and have borne the brunt of criticism from the armedservices and government representatives. Problems include lack of emphasis on in-house R&D,technology dependence on Foreign OEMs for successive generation of equipment and systems andfor upgrades, low labor productivity and decreasing value addition as a percentage of production.DPSUs have also been blamed for depending too much on external sources for productionrequirements, thus directly contradicting their main objective of achieving self-sufficiency. Ironically,most of this is outsourced to domestic private companies at prejudicial terms (delivery basedpayment terms) even though DPSUs themselves have been very vocal in their opposition to
governments continued support of private participation in the defence industry.Exhibit 4: Defence PSUs and their activities
DPSU Product areas
Hindustan Aeronautics
Limited (HAL)
Design, development, manufacture, repair and overhaul of aircraft, helicopters, engines and their accessories
Bharat Electronics Limited(BEL)
Design, development and manufacture of sophisticated state-or-the-art electronic equipment components for the use ofthe defence services, para-military organizations and other government users
Bharat Earth Movers Ltd
(BEML)
Multi-product company engaged in the design and manufacture of a wide range of equipment including specialized
heavy vehicles for defence and re-engineering solutions in automotive and aeronautics
Mazagon Dock Limited (MDL) Submarines, Larger Warships - destroyers, frigates and corvettes for the Indian Navy
Garden Reach Shipbuilders &
Engineers Ltd (GRSE)
Builds and repairs smaller warships and auxiliary vessels for the Indian Navy and the Coast Guard
Bharat Dynamics Limited
(BDL)
Missiles, torpedoes, torpedo counter measure system, counter measures dispensing system
Mishra Dhatu Nigam Limited
(MIDHANI)
Special Ferrous and Non ferrous Alloys for Aeronautics, space, armaments, atomic energy, Navy special products like
maraging steel, molybdenum wires and plates, titanium alloys and stainless steel tubes, alloys etc.
Goa Shipyard Ltd (GSL) Builds a variety of small size, special purpose ships and auxiliary vessels for the defence, Indian Coast Guard (ICG) and civil
sectors
Hindustan Shipyard Ltd (HSL) Acquired from Ministry of Surface transport. Engaged in Ship and Submarine repairs, commercial ships and repairs of
offshore rigs
Source: Respective Organization Website
2) Ordnance Factories
The Ordnance Factories Board (OFB) is by far the most experienced defence manufacturing entity.First established in 1775, the OFB now operates directly under Ministry of Defence with the primaryobjective of achieving self-sufficiency in equipping the Indian Defence Forces. Currently there are 41factories spread across the country active in the production of military equipment for the Army,Navy, and Air Force. Recent estimates put its contribution to total domestic defence production at10-15%. As with the DPSUs, ordnance factories enjoy government funding and the latest availabletechnology. They are often criticized for very low labour productivity and poor quality andincreasingly subcontract to MSMEs
3) Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO)The government established DRDO in 1958 as the research and development wing of the Ministry ofDefence. DRDO receives allocation of 5% of total defence budget. Its primary objective is to developcutting-edge technologies that can be implemented in weapons systems. Although DRDO has
made good strides, with Rs1 trn worth orders for its systems to date, it has had to do so withouttechnology from foreign sources. Till recently, the lack of transfer of technology provisions inpartnerships with foreign contractors limited the ability of the DRDO to integrate new complextechnologies in their systems.
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Increasing FDI Limit is Not the Ultimate Remedy for Addressing
Core Issue of Transfer of Technology
The Indian government has been taking steps to develop a sophisticated domestic defence
industry. To truly achieve self-sufficiency in military procurement, it still has some decisions
to make and reforms to enact. FDI in the defence industry currently has a limit of 49% with anoption to increase it to 100% if the deal involves high-end technology transfer and is
approved by MoD. Post partial success of opening up the sector to foreign players on 49%
FDI through automatic route, many stakeholders are seeking further increase in FDI cap up to
100%.
We believe mere increase in FDI does not necessarily lead to Technology Transfer.
FDI limit has the potential to have the largest impact on shaping the industrys future. If we considerthat many other sectors have had their FDI caps lifted (private banking at 49%, non-bankingfinancial companies at 100%, power at 100%, pharma at 100%, real estate at 100%, public
transportation at 100%) it is not unreasonable to expect the FDI cap in defence to be done awaywith completely.
Key Issues to be Given Importance While Approving Increased Defence FDI:
Control in Indian hands: Defence being a strategic sector, the domestic partner shouldmaintain 51% stake and Majority control in the JV all the time.
OEMs Host Government Must Approve Transfer of Technology Agreement: Itis a majorfactor affecting OEMs capability to share technology despite increase in FDI share. This ismainly because defence technologies are strategic assets and funded through taxpayersmoney limiting the intent to transfer / share with another country. Hence, the OEMs Hostgovernment should approve of the ToT Agreement with the Indian government / partner.
IPRs to reside within India:The technology developed by the Indian Joint Venture should be
of global standards and the IPRs should reside with the JV in India.
Give Priority to Indian nationals in hiring and recruitment: The JVC should hire Indiannationals at operational and supervisory levels wherever possible. Only in situations, where it isimperative to have foreign nationals, such as in technology transfers, training etc, should theybe hired.
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Technology Development
MoD revises offset policy to include Transfer of Technology (ToT)
The governments general stance on ToT was not conducive to domestic industrys developmentuntil two years ago. ToT was not included in the eligible product/service list for discharging offsetobligations. A popular concern cited by the government was that no country, especially the United
States, will be willing to hand over defence technology regardless of policy. Another reason forabstaining from this revision was the difficulty to quantify the value of technology, and that thiscould lead to foreign contractors misusing the policy to discharge offsets quickly.
However, MoD has included ToT in offset discharge obligation. In fact, if the technology is deliveredto DRDO or MSME, the multiplier effect also comes in to play.
India is on a similar trajectory as other countries, and they have all at some stage realized that the
pros far outweigh the cons. All of them have seen that developing technology is the single, mostimportant step to establishing a sophisticated, self-sufficient defence industry. We believe thisrealization of the government is a positive step.
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DPP 2013 Provides Priority to Domestic Source of Acquisition
One of the major changes in DPP 2013 is the change in order of priority for procurement fromindigenous sources. As per DPP 2013, the statement of case (SOC) seeking acceptance of necessity(AON) is required to include detailed justification for recommending categorization as well asreasons why each of the higher preferred categorization was not considered.
Exhibit 7: Preferred Categorization Of Capital Acquisition in DPP 2013
Source: Ministry Presentation
Key Highlights of changes in DPP 2013
Indigenous content requirement will now extend all the way to lowest tier of sub vendormaking way for opportunities for vendors making components to compete against cheaper
foreign components Penalties for not achieving stipulated indigenous content levels at each stage with a scope to
make up for the deficiency at a later stage
Inclusion of Field Evaluation Trials (FET)stage in maintaining offset requirement
Reducing validity of AoN from 2 years to one year except Buy and Make (Indian)
Provision of ToT to Indian Public/Private entity, for providing Maintenance Infrastructure, wouldbe applicable for BUY (Global)
In a boost to the micro, small and medium enterprises sector, while DPP 2011 had identified settingup of a fund to provide resources for development of defence equipment, the source has beenspecifically identified in DPP 2013. Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) will earmarkan amount of Rs. 500 crore for providing loans, and further, a fund of Rs. 50 crore for equity supportout of India Opportunities Fund managed by its subsidiary SIDBI Venture Capital Ltd. Union
Budget has made provisions for Rs1bn Technology Development Fund to support research anddevelopment of defence systems resources. The technology development fund will act like aventure capital fund for SMEs doing R&D in design and development encouraging innovations.
(ToT is also defined in various categories in DPP 2013, which had not been included in DPP
2011. This will overcome ambiguity existing at present. There are five categories of ToT with
the highest involving complete transfer and lowest where there is no transfer.
Category 1: Complete transfer of technology.Category 2: Complete transfer of technology of sub-vendor.
Category 3: Partial transfer of technology with non-transfer of technology of sub-vendor.Category 4: Only drawings will be provided.
Category 5: Proprietary item no transfer of technology.
Buy (India)
Buy & Make (Indian)
Make (Indian)
Buy & Make
Buy
(Global)
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Major developments for Defence sector in the past year
Indo US Ties (Early 2015)o Indo US ties reached a new high when President of USA visited India for its Republic
day celebrations. Renewing their expansive defense ties for another 10 years, India andUS decided to kick off joint manufacturing of four relatively modest military productsand explore the development of two more high-end technologies. The two nationsagreed to step up joint combat exercises, maritime security endeavors, intelligence-sharing mechanisms, military exchanges and the like through the framework, whichhas the key new element of Defence Trade and Technology Initiative (DTTI) to bolsterIndia's fledgling defence-industrial base.
o The four products to be co-produced are the next-generation Raven unmanned aerialvehicles (UAVs), "roll-on, roll-off" intelligence-gathering and reconnaissance modulesfor C-130J Super Hercules aircraft, mobile electric hybrid power sources and "uniformintegrated protection ensemble increment-2 (chemical, biological warfare protectiongear for soldiers)".
o The Raven, for instance, is not an advanced spy or combat drone. A hand-launchedmini drone, it is used by soldiers in the battlefield to keep tabs on enemy formations
within a range of 10km. The two sides, however, plan to extend its range to 18km andflying endurance to six hours from the existing four hours. Similarly, the 12 C-130Jsacquired by India from the US for over $2 billion since 2007 did not have the requisite
surveillance modules that they will now get. They decided to setup working groups toexplore development of aircraft carrier technologies and jet engines.
Strong Push for Make in India Initiative for boosting manufacturing sector (Late 2014)o The current focus as envisaged in recent statements and policy initiatives of the
government has focused on the desire of not just greater indigenisation or India has afavorable manufacturing hub, but also India as exporting defence equipment andsolutions to global market.
Budget (Early 2014)o Defence budget marginally rose from Rs 2.24trn to Rs 2.29trn, an increase of Rs 50bn.
o The government has budgeted Rs. 946bn under capital outlay. This amounts to Rs50bnmore than sanctioned in the interim budget of February 2014.
o This increase of Rs 50bn (capital outlay) includes a sum of Rs 10bn for accelerating thedevelopment of railway system in border areas.
o FDI limit increased in defence from 26% to composite cap of 49% (FDI and FII) throughthe Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) route with full Indian management andcontrol.
o Rs 1bn Technology Development Fund to support research and development indefence systems resources.
Impact of the Budget announcementso Development of railway system in border areas will help in strategic movement of
defence forces and heavy defence machinery at a faster pace.o Increase in FDI limit will attract foreign investors and bring defence technologies and
much needed financial support to capital intensive defence sector.o The technology development fund will act like a venture capital fund for SMEs doing
R&D in design and development encouraging innovations.
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Defence Opportunity has size, growth and longevity going for it
Indias defence spend has critical mass when compared to sectors of the economy where investorstraditionally have taken exposure. The spend on an average was 2.12% of the nominal GDP in thepast decade. However, a large part of this defence spend is not reflected in revenues of domesticcompanies and therefore has not resulted in larger addressable market for domestic companies,
because of the following: A large part of it (60% currently) is revenue expenditure which is internal in nature. Unlike in
the US where some of the peripheral/support functions are outsourced, Indian armed forceshave always relied on doing them internally. We do not see this situation changing over thenext 2 decades though we believe the spend in this area is unlikely to grow as fast as capex.
Of the capex (43% of the budget) about 70% is imported in fact India has been the largestimporter of weapon systems globally in recent times. This gets reflected in lower revenues ofIndian corporates involved in the sector. This has meant that the industrial base necessary tosupport this capex has not been built up adequately.
Besides the domestic defence spend there lies the large opportunity of addressing globalmarkets. However, exports have been miniscule. Over the past decade from FY00-12,
cumulative exports by India were only $172m (going by SIPRI data).We believe the opportunity for Indian companies in the next 8 years (FY14-FY22) will cumulativelybe in the region of $251bn (this is only the arms acquisitions that India is likely to make) withdomestic contribution of $105bn. We believe offsets (which will fall under exports to contribute toas much as $41b cumulatively in the next 8 years.
Expect solid growth: The opportunity addressed by Indian companies will grow at a higher ratethan Nominal GDP as a) Indias defence spend/GDP ratio inches up to 2.25% on a conservative basisin FY22 from 1.79% of FY14. b) capex (part relevant to Indian corporates) will increase as apercentage of total spend. c) there is going to be greater focus on indigenization. d) offsets are
going to be a big driver of revenues going forward for the industry. e) outsourcing to Indiancompanies by global systems integrators will gather pace as price pressure emerges in developedmarkets.
Exhibit 8: Estimation of size of defence opportunity for Indian corporate sector (PSU and Private)
Source: SIPRI, Indian budget documents
Indian Defence Spending
Revenue ExpenditureCapex
DomesticImport
Offset
FY14E:$14bn FY22E:$57bn
FY14E:$8bn FY22E:$24bn FY14E:$4bn FY22E:$24bn
FY14E:$19bn FY22E:$56bn
FY14E:$2.4bn FY22E:$7.3bn
Global Defence Spend
Outsourcing
FY14E:$0.1bn FY22E:$9.7bn
FY14E:$1.7tr FY22E:$1.5tr
OutsourcingtoIndiatoincreasedueto:
Pressureonspending
Highcompetitiveintensity
NoaccesstoChinamarket
India s En ineerin work force
OpportunitySize Indian
PSU/Private/SME
FY14E:$6bn
FY22E:
$41bn
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Estimation of the Size of the Opportunity
We estimate the market opportunity for Indian companies (PSU + Pvt) will grow 7x from $6bn inFY14 to $41bn by FY22. We believe our numbers are realistic as we have assumed nominal GDPgrowth of 12.3% (~7% real GDP growth and ~5% inflation) during this period, which takes intoaccount slower developed market growth and the impact it will have on Indias growth. Based on
the estimates worked out in Exhibit 11, $41bn in FY22 will be contributed largely by domestic (60%)and export revenues (40%). Some of the other key assumptions made in this exercise are thatINR/USD rate would be at Rs62 and the imported part of defence acquisitions will fall to 50% from
current 70%.
Some of the key conclusions that we arrive at based on this exercise are that the cumulative defencespend over FY14-FY22 will hit close to $620bn. Capex will form half of this. New armament spendwill be $251bn with imported equipment spend at $146bn.
Exhibit 9: Summary of our estimates
Summary of the projections FY14-FY17 FY17-FY22 FY14-FY22
Defence Spend (Rsbn) 10,851 27,617 38,468
Defence Spend ($bn) 175 445 620
Capex Spend (Rsbn) 4,805 13,488 18,293
Capex Spend ($bn) 77 218 295New Armament Spend (Rsbn) 4,084 11,465 15,549
New Armament Spend ($ bn) 66 185 251
Of which
Imported Equipment Spend (Rsbn) 2,707 6,320 9,027
Imported Equipment Spend ($ bn) 44 102 146
Domestic Equipment Spend (Rsbn) 1,377 5,144 6,521
Domestic Equipment Spend ($ bn) 22 83 105
Offsets
Addressable Opportunity (Rs bn) 812 1,896 2,708
Addressable Opportunity ($ bn) 13 31 41
Source: Centrum
Exhibit 10: Assumptions made in our projections
Stage I Stage II FY14
FY14-FY17 FY17-FY22
Rs/$ 62 62 62
Average Real GDP growth 7.5% 6.5% 5%
Average Inflation 5% 4% 8.0%
Defense Budget/NGDP 2.00% 2.25% 1.8%
Capex/Defense BudgetIncreasing by 1%
every yearIncreasing by
1% every year42%
Import/CapexDecreasing by
1% every year
Decreasing by
3% every year70%
Offset 30% 30% ~35%
Export Growth (non offset) 120% 100%
Armament Acquisition/Capex 85% 85%
Source: Centrum
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Exhibit11:Proje
ctionsofIndia'sdefenceSpend,C
apex,
AcquisitionSize,
DomesticMarketandExportMarket
(AllnumbersinRsbnunlessstatedotherwise)
FY11
FY12
FY13
FY14
FY15
FY16
FY17
FY18
FY19
FY20
FY21
FY22
FY14
-FY17
CAGR
FY17-FY22
CAGR
FY14-FY22
CAGR
NominalGDP
77
,953
89
,749
1,0
0,2
06
1,1
3,6
34
1,2
8,8
61
1,4
6,1
28
1,6
5,7
09
1,8
7,9
14
2,1
3,095
2,4
1,6
50
2,7
4,0
31
3,1
0,7
51
13.4
%
13.4
%
13.4
%
DefenceBudget
1,4
73
1,6
44
1,9
34
2,0
37
2,5
77
2,9
23
3,3
14
4,2
28
4,795
5,4
37
6,1
66
6,9
92
17.6
%
16.1
%
16.7
%
Capex
600
691
796
867
1,1
23
1,3
03
1,5
11
1,9
70
2,282
2,6
42
3,0
57
3,5
37
20.3
%
18.5
%
19.2
%
%ofdefencebudget
41%
42%
41%
43%
44%
45%
46%
47%
48
%
49%
50%
51%
NewArmsAcquisitionSpend
510
588
676
737
955
1108
1284
1674
1939
2246
2599
3007
20.3
%
18.5
%
19.2
%
NewArmsAcquisitionSpend
Imported
357
411
467
501
640
731
835
1,0
38
1,144
1,2
58
1,3
77
1,5
03
18.5
%
12.5
%
14.7
%
%ofCapex
70%
70%
69%
68%
67%
66%
65%
62%
59
%
56%
53%
50%
NewArmsAcquisitionSpend
Domestic
153
176
210
236
315
377
449
636
795
988
1,2
21
1,5
03
24.0
%
27.3
%
26.0
%
Export
Export(relatedtooutsourcing)+thirdpartysales*
0.4
0.1
0.8
1.8
4
9
19
38
76
151
302
604
120.0
%
100.0
%
107.3
%
Offset**
107
123
140
150
192
219
250
311
3
43
377
413
451
18.5
%
12.5
%
14.7
%
TotalExport
107
124
141
152
196
228
269
349
4
19
528
715
1,0
55
21.0
%
31.4
%
27.4
%
TotalAddressableO
pportunity-Domestic
153
176
210
236
315
377
449
636
795
988
1,2
21
1,5
03
24.0
%
27.3
%
26.0
%
TotalAddressableO
pportunity-Domestic($bn)
2
3
3
4
5
6
7
10
13
16
20
24
TotalAddressableO
pportunity-Exports
107
124
141
152
196
228
269
349
419
528
715
1,0
55
21.0
%
31.4
%
27.4
%
TotalAddressableO
pportunity-Exports($bn)
2
2
2
2
3
4
4
6
7
9
12
17
TotalAddressableO
pportunity
260
300
351
388
511
605
719
985
1,21
4
1,5
16
1,9
37
2,5
58
22.8
%
28.9
%
26.6
%
TotalAddressableO
pportunity($bn)
4
5
6
6
8
10
12
16
2
0
24
31
41
Note
*=Averageexportnum
beroverthelast10yearsasthenumberisvery
volatileSource:SIPRI
*=AlsoincludesMROnumber
**=TimingUncertainoftheseflows,Assumedasexportsdeemedexports
Source:SIPRI,IndianBu
dgetDocuments,Centrum
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Domestic revenues to pick up pace
Domestic revenues (using HAL+ BEL revenues as proxy) grew in line with nominal GDP in the
last decade. We expect domestic opportunity for Indian companies (from arms acquisitions)
to grow from $4bn in FY14 to $24bn in FY22 at 23% CAGR. The faster growth predicted is on
the back of the following:
Indian defence budgets to grow faster than nominal GDP growth as they have fallen belowhistorical levels. 50% of Indian defence equipment is obsolete.
The gap between India and China has widened from a military capability perspective with theChinese surging ahead in a number of areas (including stealth weapons, anti-satellite weapons,etc) driven largely by domestic R&D and reverse engineering as western technology has beendenied to it since 1989. The surge in capabilities has been accompanied by a geopoliticallyassertive China. Strong economic growth and high savings rate has helped China deliver onthis. With US likely to be less active in the Asian region as it repairs its financials, we believe Indiawill have to spend more to bridge the widening gap
Capex to opex ratio will change in favor of Capex. as the latter will be capped. We believe thatIndia will aim at a smaller, smarter and more effective armed force as many other countries have
done.
Indigenization will gain momentum. We believe that from 30% indigenous components in newacquisitions the number can go up to 50% in the next 10 years. However, this will still be lowerthan governments aspiration of 70%.
A freer technology transfer regime may be prompted by better perception of India amongWestern nations. This is likely due to declining sales opportunities in the western world and
better bargaining power of the buyer (India) under current market conditions.
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Indian Defence Budgets To Witness Higehr Growth Rates
We believe Indias defence budget will grow at a CAGR of 15% over FY14-22 slightly ahead of
expected nominal GDP growth of 12.5%. In the past decade (FY01-FY14) defence budgets
grew at 12% CAGR and capital expenditure budgets by 14.7% (when Nominal GDP grew by
14%). We expect India to expand its defence budget 1) as it seeks to maintain a semblance of
geo-political balance in Asia as US is likely to withdraw to repair its financials and narrow the
large gap that has developed with China militarily 2) Massive modernization undertaken as50% of current equipment is obsolete due to less than adequate spend on defence in the past
3) reasonably comfortable funding position on the back of healthy tax revenues and
comfortable debt/GDP ratio relative to other nations and Indias own history.
Defence Spend/NGDP ratio to improve after a decade low in FY14
After clocking a 2%-2.5% over FY01-11, the defence budget/NGDP ratio has fallen to 1.79%-1.93%range with an all-time low of 1.79% in FY14. We believe this is likely revert to the mean of 2.25% bythe second part of the coming decade as much of Indias equipment is obsolete and it has underspent on its defence budget. After withdrawal from Afghanistan and Iraq, US has also lowered itsrole in Asian geopolitics as its defence spending has come under severe scrutiny. Recent budget
pledges by the US government indicate a cut of $450bn over the next 12 years with the numbergoing up to $1.1trn automatically if no areas of deficit reduction are identified by the Supercommittee.
Exhibit 12: The Indian domestic corporate sector (largely PSU) has grown in line with NGDP
Source: Company
China has significantly increased the gap with India militarilyRelative analysis of key adversaries India and China is given in Exhibit 17. Due to denial of defencetechnology by western powers since the Tiananmen incident in 1989, the Chinese Defence and
aerospace fraternity got its act together by spending considerable amount of energy and money inindigenous R&D and in reverse engineering some American and Russian equipment. In recent timesit closed the gap with the Americans in specific areas of technology (and naturally increased the gapwith India). To reduce the gap with the Chinese, Indian defence spending will have to increase
substantially as it cannot always look up to the western powers to maintain the current powerbalance in the Asian region.
A look at defence spending data collected by SIPRI in 2000 shows, Chinese spends were 1.5x Indias.In 2013 the number went up to ~3.5x. This increased spend was entirely channelized internally asthere was no access to western technology. This will turn out to be the best to happen to China. Thisled to the creation of a large industrial base and significant R&D facilities in the defence sector.
SIPRI data shows Chinese defence spending grew 11% against Indias 5% between FY02-13.
16%
11%
14%
0.0%
2.0%
4.0%
6.0%
8.0%
10.0%
12.0%
14.0%
16.0%
18.0%
HAL BEL CombinedCAGR(FY01-FY13)
(%)
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Exhibit 13: Defence Spending by top 10 spenders
($m)
2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
2002-2007
CAGR
2007-2013
CAGR
USA 4,46,142 5,07,781 5,53,441 5,79,831 5,88,837 6,04,292 6,49,003 7,01,048 7,20,282 7,11,338 6,71,097 6,18,681 6.26% 0.39%
China, P.
R.
52,832 57,390 63,560 71,496 83,928 96,782 1,06,640 1,28,734 1,36,239 1,47,268 1,59,620 1,71,381 12.87% 9.99%
France 62,840 64,749 66,526 65,123 65,470 65,691 65,037 69,426 66,251 64,633 63,736 62,272 0.89% -0.89%
UK 53,179 57,005 57,665 58,150 58,527 60,375 63,070 64,297 62,942 60,284 57,717 56,231 2.57% -1.18%
Russia 37,300 39,100 40,870 46,446 51,404 55,954 61,484 64,504 65,807 70,238 80,995 84,864 8.45% 7.19%
Japan 60,701 61,460 61,201 61,288 60,892 60,574 59,140 59,735 59,003 60,452 59,571 59,431 -0.04% -0.32%
Germany 49,920 49,237 47,726 46,983 45,899 45,940 47,259 49,046 49,583 48,164 49,312 49,297 -1.65% 1.18%
Saudi
Arabia25,762 25,951 28,850 34,763 39,600 45,617 44,771 46,011 47,881 48,531 54,913 62,760 12.11% 5.46%
Italy 43,513 43,867 44,011 42,342 40,976 39,736 41,160 40,002 38,876 38,149 35,436 32,663 -1.80% -3.21%
India 28,528 29,165 33,879 36,054 36,225 36,664 41,585 48,963 49,159 49,634 49,459 49,091 5.15% 4.98%
Total
Spending8,60,717 9,35,705 9,97,729 10,42,476 10,71,758 11,11,625 11,79,149 12,71,766 12,96,023 12,98,691 12,81,856 12,46,671 5.25% 1.93%
Source: SIPRI
Exhibit 14: Share of Spending among the top 10 spenders
(%) 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
USA 51.8 54.3 55.5 55.6 54.9 54.4 55.0 55.1 55.6 54.8 52.4 49.6
China, P. R. 6.1 6.1 6.4 6.9 7.8 8.7 9.0 10.1 10.5 11.3 12.5 13.7
France 7.3 6.9 6.7 6.2 6.1 5.9 5.5 5.5 5.1 5.0 5.0 5.0
UK 6.2 6.1 5.8 5.6 5.5 5.4 5.3 5.1 4.9 4.6 4.5 4.5
Russia 4.3 4.2 4.1 4.5 4.8 5.0 5.2 5.1 5.1 5.4 6.3 6.8
Japan 7.1 6.6 6.1 5.9 5.7 5.4 5.0 4.7 4.6 4.7 4.6 4.8
Germany 5.8 5.3 4.8 4.5 4.3 4.1 4.0 3.9 3.8 3.7 3.8 4.0
Saudi Arabia 3.0 2.8 2.9 3.3 3.7 4.1 3.8 3.6 3.7 3.7 4.3 5.0
Italy 5.1 4.7 4.4 4.1 3.8 3.6 3.5 3.1 3.0 2.9 2.8 2.6
India 3.3 3.1 3.4 3.5 3.4 3.3 3.5 3.9 3.8 3.8 3.9 3.9
Total Spending 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100
Source: SIPRI
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Exhibit 15: Comparison: India, China and Pakistan on defence parameters
India China Pakistan
Total Population 1,220,800,359 1,349,585,838 193,238,868
Military Manpower Available 615,201,057 749,610,775 93,351,401
Fit for Military Service 489,571,520 618,588,627 75,326,989
Reaching Military Age Yearly 22,896,956 19,538,534 4,342,629
Active Military Personnel 1,325,000 2,285,000 617,000Active Military Reserves 2,143,000 2,300,000 515,000
Total Aircraft 1,785 2,788 847
Total Land-Based Weapons 15,681 23,664 10,244
Total Naval Units 184 520 74
Towed Artillery 6,445 6,246 3,263
Merchant Marine Strength 340 2,030 11
Major Ports and Terminals 7 15 2
Aircraft Carriers 2 1 0
Destroyers 11 24 0
Frigates 15 45 11
Submarines 17 69 8
Patrol Coastal Craft 32 353 12
Mine Warfare Craft 7 119 3
Corvettes 24 9 0
Defense Budget / Expenditure $46,000,000,000 $126,000,000,000 $7,000,000,000
Foreign Reserves $297,800,000,000 $3,341,000,000,000 $13,800,000,000
Purchasing Power $4,716,000,000,000 $12,260,000,000,000 $546,700,000,000
Major Serviceable Airports 346 507 151
Source: Globafirepower.com (As updated on January 2015)
Exhibit 16: Size of Indian Defence spend compared to other nations
Source: SIPRI
Note: This does not include data on US whose defence spend is almost 4x of Chinas.
France
China
UKGermany
India*
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
140
160
180
200
(2) (1) 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
MilitarySpending($bn)
CAGR (2000-2012)France China UK Germany India*
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Exhibit 17: Military spend Growth comparison (%)
Source: SIPRI, LC = Local Currency
Exhibit 18: Widening gap between India and China
China's widening gap with India Description
China's defence spend/GDP Chinas spend has been growing at a much faster clip compared to that of Indiaseven if one were to adjust for local currency. Chinas spend used to be 1.5x Indias in
2000. In 2012 it was 3.3x. India's. Defence spending to GDP ratio is still much below 3
per cent level defined as an adequate level of expenditure in Indias first ever
Strategic Defence Review prepared by the National Security Advisory Board in 2000.
Military might According to a Pentagon report
China is pursuing a major military buildup in a "secretive manner" developing
survivable nuclear delivery system, a 1,500 km range anti-ship missile to hit aircraft
carriers and has the most active land based ballistic and cruise missile program in the
world
Beijing is acquiring 'capabilities' to strike from a distance.
Beijing has developed missiles capable of striking targets in space and is also
expanding its fleet of conventional and nuclear submarines
China has the most active land-based ballistic and cruise missile program in the world
China is developing and testing several new classes of offensive missiles, qualitatively
upgrading certain missile systems and developing methods to counter ballisticmissile defenses
In January 2007, China launched a kinetic kill vehicle (KKV) to smash into its ownaging Fengyun (FY-1C) satellite
China has at least 53 conventional and seven nuclear attack submarines (SSNs)
Science and Technology China targets fifth place from current sixth in global innovativeness ranking by 2020.
By 2040-50, China aims at science and technology (S&T) parity with US
R&D There has been surging growth in the innovativeness of Chinese defence industry. In
1998, it filed for 313 patents. In 2008, it filed 11,000 patents. and In 2010, 15,000
patents.
Source: Media
8.0
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Exhibit 19: India and China Recent points of friction between the two
Date Anecdotes
Nov-06 China and India had a verbal spat over the north-east Indian state of Arunachal
Pradesh. India claimed that China was occupying 38,000 square kilometers of its
territory in Kashmir, while China claimed the whole of Arunachal Pradesh as its ownMay-07 China denied the application for visa from an Indian Administrative Service officer in
Arunachal Pradesh. According to China, since Arunachal Pradesh is a territory of
China, he would not need a visa to visit his own countryJun-09 The People's Daily, a Communist Party mouthpiece that serves as a window to the
thinking of Beijing's insular leadership, published an exceptional broadside against
New Delhi on June 11. It described India's "tough posture" as "dangerous," and asked
India to "consider whether or not it can afford the consequences of a potential
confrontation with China."
Dec-07 The Indian Air Force announced it will station two squadrons of advanced Sukhoi-30
MKI aircraft in Tezpur, in Assam.
Oct-09 Asian Development Bank formally acknowledging Arunachal Pradesh as part of Indiaapproved a loan to India for a development project there. Earlier China had exercised
pressure on the bank to cease the loan
Jan-11 India claimed that armed Chinese soldiers had infiltrated Indian territory and
threatened construction workers near a disputed border. New Delhi says China isillegally occupying 38,000 square kilometers of its northwestern territory, while
Beijing claims a 90,000 square-kilometer chunk in northeastern India.
Sept-14 In one of the many cases of cross-border incursion, Chinese troops infiltrated Indianterritory in Ladakh and broke a camera set up by the Indian Army at the Line of Actual
Control (LAC). These cameras were of high resolution and had been put up by theIndian soldiers to keep an eye on Chinese soldiers. The Chinese troops also
demolished the temporary structures built by the Indian Army and threatened the
Indians living in area to evacuate the place immediately.
Source: Media
Under spending across the board leading to obsolescence
Although defence expenditure budget and actual defence spending have been increasing in line
with NGDP since FY2001, there has been a trend of under spending by defence forces, particularly incapital expenditure. From FY2001-2013 approximately INR 515 bn, or 13% of the cumulative capital
expenditure budget, was under-spent
Exhibit 20: Under spending in absolute terms Exhibit 21: Under spending in % terms
Source: Union Budget and Economic Survey Source: Union Budget and Economic Survey
A close inspection of each service divisions spending habits also reveals consistent under spending.On average for the past 12 year between 2001-13: the Army underspends by 13%, the Navyunderspends by 5%, and the Air Force underspends by 14%. When you consider 2011 & 2012 as anoutlier for Navy and take it out of the calculation, the Navys average under spending jumps up to
11.3%.
(200)
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(Rsbn)
Revenue Capital
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2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
Revenue Capital
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Exhibit 22: Under spending has been highest in Air Force
followed by Army and Navy in absolute terms.
Exhibit 23: Under spending has been highest in Air Force
followed by Army and Navy in % terms.
Source: Union Budget and Economic Survey Source: Union Budget and Economic Survey
However capital expenditure will pick up as Capex to Opex mix will improve from the current level.
We expect the country to focus on controlling the operating expenditure and focus on capitalacquisitions going forward. The focus would be on a smaller, leaner and a more effective armedforce. We believe about $77bn would be spent on arms capex till FY17 cumulatively and about$295bn till FY22.
Exhibit 24: Defence spending to GDP ratio - Behavior of various components
Source: Union Budget and Economic Survey
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-40
-20
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80
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
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(40)%(30)%(20)%(10)%
0%10%20%30%40%
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(%)
0.00%
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3.00%
1992 1997 2002 2007 2012
Revenue/GDP Capital/GDP Total/GDP
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Exhibit 25: Governments Projection of Defence Spending Till FY22
Source: Union Budget and Economic Survey
124
796 867
3,537
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Modernization to be a key driver for Indian defence acquisition
Currently 50% of the military equipment is estimated to be obsolete and only 15% state-of-the-art.The Ministry of Defence (MoD) aims to reduce the former by 20% and to increase the latter by 15%.
Exhibit 26: Indian Defence Equipment Profile Current Exhibit 27: Indian Defence Equipment Profile Target
Source: 2ndIndian Regional Offset Conference Source: 2nd Indian Regional Offset Conference
MOD has allocated approximately 40% of total Defence spending to capital outlays to support itsmodernization efforts. Capital outlays constitute expenditure on arms procurements, construction,infrastructure and other military equipment.
The capital expenditure budgets have seen good growth rates (CAGR of 13%
between 2001-14)
Over the past decade between 2001 to 2013, the capital expenditure budgets have been increasingat a CAGR of 13% and the total defence expenditure budgets at 10%. The same period has seenIndias GDP grow at 14% in nominal terms. The capital component has been increasing steadily
increasing as a percentage of the total budget from 31% in FY2001 to 43% in FY2014. Thesenumbers demonstrate Indias appetite for procurement of state-of-the-art military equipment.Statements from MoD indicate that India does not intend to slow down its purchase plan despitealready engaging in a decade of intensive acquisitions.
Exhibit 28: Indias Defence Budget (FY2001-FY2014)
Source: Union Budget and Economic Survey
Note: The defence budget consists of two main parts, capital and revenue expenditures. Capital expenditures include the costs of
the development of infrastructure as well as procurement of military equipment, other armaments, and land. Revenue expenditures
include everyday operating expenses of the Indian Defence Force such as wages and salaries, which account for about half of therevenue budget. The other components of the operating expenses are Interest payments,
Payment
to
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police
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The key component here is the capital expenditures budget, of which the majority is allocated to
procuring n ew equipment from foreign or domestic sources. Roughly 75-85% of the capital e xpenditures budget has historically
gone to arms procurement, and this proportion is not likely to change.
Obselete
50.0%
Matured
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Revenue Capital
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Exhibit 29: Trend between Opex and Capex in the defence budget
Source: Union Budget and Economic Survey
Exhibit 30: Capex spend in the overall budget spend has been improving DefenceExpenditure Historical Trend
Source: Union Budget and Economic Survey
capital expenditures by service division
On average over the past decade between 2001-2014, the Army accounts for 23% of the capitalexpenditure, the Navy 29%, and the Air Force 48%. The trend over the years indicates that the AirForce has increased its share and cut into the budgets of other forces over the years. All threedivisions expenditures have grown rapidly along with the total defence budget.
0
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Capexastotal%ofDefexp
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Exhibit 31: Capital Expenditure Budgets by Service Division, in real terms
Source: Union Budget and Economic Survey
Exhibit 32: Capital Expenditure Budgets by Service Division, % terms
Source: Union Budget and Economic Survey
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Current acquisition plans indicate significant buying ahead
The acquisitions plans laid out by the Indian forces indicate that the there is considerable buyingahead over the next 5 years.
Exhibit 33: Acquisition plans of the various branches of the armed forces
Segment Category Indicative Items Qnty Size($Bn)
Air Helicopters Indigenous Advanced Light Helicopter (ALH) - Dhruv 159 7.20Medium lift Helicopters 80 1.20
VVIP helicopters 12 0.83
Light Utility Helicopter (HAL) 65 1.27
Combat / Attack Helicopter 22 1.40
Heavy Lift helicopters 15 0.60
Missile Systems Short Range Surface to Air Missile System (SRSAM) 5,000 6.00
Medium Range Surface to Air Missile Systems (MRSAM) -Akash
2,000 5.00
Long Range Surface to Air Missile Systems (LRSAM) 1,500 5.00
Transport and otheraircraft
C-17 Military transport Aircrafts 10 4.10
Medium-Lift Transport Aircraft 56 2.45
PC 7 MK II Basic Trainer Aircraft 181 1.20Hawk Mk 132 Advanced Jet Trainer 143 2.90
C 130J Hercules aircraft 12 1.20
AN-32 Upgrade 104 0.40
Embraer Jets 3 0.21
Israeli Harop killer UAVs 10 0.10
Multi-Role Tanker Transport 6 2.00
Indigenous Airborne Warning and Control System (2 + 4) 6 1.09
Interaction ongoing
between IAF andIndustry
Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft
LCA - Mark -2
Unmanned Fighter Aircraft
Fighter Aircrafts Su-30 MKI 272 12.38
Medium Multi Role Combat Aircraft (MMRCA) - (126 withan option for 64-74 more)
126 20.00
Fifth Generation Fighter Aircraft (FGFA) (India and Russia) 214 30.00
Mirage 2000 Upgrade 51 2.20
MiG-29 Upgrade 63 0.70
LCA (Tejas) - Includes 54 Indian Navy 244 3.36
Others Airfields for infrastructure upgrade 30
Land Artillery 155 mm Mounted Howitzer 814 2.00
155 mm Wheeled Self-Propelled Guns 180 0.60
155mm ammunition rounds all types 1,50,000
155mm precision guided munitions 50,000
Air Mobile Ultra light howitzers (ULH) 145 0.90
155 mm Towed Howitzer (410 + 1170) 1,580 1.78
130mm M-46 Upgrade 300Helicopters Light Utility Helicopters 197 0.75
Missiles ICV-mounted anti -tank guided missiles 1,000
Tanks and Vehicles Arjun Tank 242 0.38
Futuristic Infantry Combat Vehicle (FICV) 2,600 10.00
Futuristic Main Battle Tank (FMBT) 1,000 5.50
Light Specialist Vehicles (LSVs) 3,000 0.27
Light Multi utility Recce Vehicles (LAM) 800 0.20
Air Defence Very Short Range Air Defence Missiles (VSHOARD) 5,175 4.50
ZU-23-2 anti-aircraft upgrade 468 0.30
40 mm Anti- aircraft Gun 115 0.30
Others Battlefield Management System (BMS) 500 7.27
Multirole Assault Rifles 65,768 0.25
Tactical Communications System (TCS) 7 1.80Bullet proof jackets 59,000
Mini Unmanned aerial vehicles 1,000
FINSAS - Futuristic Infantry Soldier As a System
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Mine field breaching systems 0.25
Segment Category Indicative Items Qnty Size($Bn)
Navy Helicopters Advanced Light Helicopters 47 7.20
Naval Utility Helicopters 56 1.00
Advanced multi role Naval Helicopters 123 6.80
Navalised Aircraft MiG-29K 29 2.25
Fighter Aircrafts for IAC 2
Long Range Maritime Patrol Aircraft - Boeing P8-I 20 2.07Medium-range Maritime Reconnaissance Aircraft 6 1.00
Submarines Midget Submarines 5 0.50
Stealth Submarines - Project 75 India (P-75I) 6 8.00
Warships Survey Training Vessels 4 0.47
Project 17 A Frigates 7 8.18
Landing Platform/dock (LPD) 4 3.50
Survey vessels 6
Off-shore Patrol Vessels 9
Indigenous Aircraft Carriers 2 0.45
ASW Shallow Water Crafts 16 2.00
Mid-Life Upgrades of the Kirch Class Corvettes 5
Sail Training Ship 1
Others 30 - 40 mm Gun With EOFCS 116 0.27Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) 10 0.01
Portable diver detection sonar (PDDS) systems 78 0.07
Heavy Weight Torpedoes (Surface) 98 0.25
Surface Surveillance Radars 31 0.30
20-30 mm Close In Weapon System 25 0.20
Mobile Missile Coastal Battery 15 0.25
NTDS 12
Source: FICCI, Media, and compiled by Centrum
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Precedents show that developing technology is the key
Looming threats from neighbors and the reality of its obsolete military equipment have
forced India to step up its modernization efforts. However, the domestic defence industry is
unable to keep up with the huge demand and does not possess the technology required to
manufacture complex military equipment needed by defence forces. Therefore, India has had
to rely heavily on imports to meet as much as 70% of its procurement needs. Despite this, the
Ministry of Defence has made it clear that it wants to pursue indigenization in the long termand eventually achieve self-sufficiency in military production. India is not the first nation to
face such a daunting task. Other countries have succeeded in developing and transforming
their defence industries. The common catalyst is technology.
In all of these cases, the key catalyst to the industrys progress was developing technological
capability in defence systems. Without it, these nations would still largely rely on imports forcomplex military equipment. Each went about this in a different way: Israel worked its way aroundarms embargoes to procure key technologies, Brazil absorbed technology through joint ventures
with foreign contractors, and South Korea invested heavily in R&D and its infrastructure from thevery start. China has also transformed itself into a largely indigenously equipped military because ofits emphasis on R&D. Due to an official roadmap for science & technology, China jumped from a
global innovativeness ranking of 24 in 2004 to 6 in 2009. Its defence industrys innovativeness alsosaw vast improvement. In 1998, it had filed for 313 patents whereas in 2013 the same statistic hadgone up to 15000 patents.
Countries in similar positions to India include Turkey, Peru, Chile, and Korea. Turkey, realizing theimportance of technological capability in long-term self-sufficiency, is investing heavily in R&D. In2012 it invested USD 600 mn, up 32% YoY. This emphasis on R&D is already paying dividends: the
domestic defence industry accounted for more than half of procurement spending in 2012 ofaround $4bn. Indias R&D spending is dismal compared to Turkeys. It spends roughly the same asTurkey on R&D, but has a procurement budget more than three times larger and a GDP more thantwo times larger. Clearly if India wishes to develop a more sophisticated defence industry, it willhave to focus on advancing technological capability by 1) investing larger amounts in R&D and 2)pushing for ToT in defence procurement deals.
Israel
Background on domestic defence industry
In 1960s, escalating conflicts with its Arab neighbors, combined with arms embargoes and brokenagreements by foreign suppliers forced Israel to begin its initial indigenization efforts. Israel soonrealized that financial and technological constraints made immediate self-sufficiency in military
equipment impossible. The government then pursued a two-pronged strategy: it continued topurchase whatever it could from foreign sources but also invested heavily in developing its defenceindustry, primarily in R&D and infrastructure. Acquiring the knowledge and technology tomanufacture complex military equipment and systems was crucial. Because of the ongoing arms
embargoes, Israel had to resort to smuggling, reverse-engineering and global networks to acquirethe expertise needed for the development of these technologies. By the 1980s, Israel had asophisticated defence industry that was able to capture significant revenues through exports toIran, South Africa, China, Singapore, and Chile. Incidentally, these revenues helped finance new R&Ddevelopment during a period of budget cuts that would have otherwise eaten into the R&Dcomponent. India needs an institution like SIBAT, Israel to promote indigenized products in thedefence sector
Private firms success in Israel
By the 1990s, private firms were winning a larger share of the Ministry of Defences contracts. Thisresulted in the Mandatory Tender Law, which established a competitive bidding system for all MoD
contracts. This made the tender process more transparent and subsequently led to greater private
involvement in government projects. At the beginning of the 21st century, private firms accountedfor 33% of domestic defence production in a country that was once dominated by the public sector.
The next few years saw the privatization of several public defence companies and the merging ofmany private defence firms. It is important to note that in Israel major cuts in the defence budget
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forced most private firms to diversify and rely more on foreign clients. They engaged in jointventures and acquisitions to secure footholds in overseas markets, which now account for an
astonishing 80% of revenues. The Defence Ministry of Israel stated that the sector racked up sales ofUSD 7.4 bn in 2012, (See Exhibit No 55). Most of the sales were by Israel's four biggest Defencecompanies, IAI, Elbit, Rafael and IMI.
Brazil
Background on domestic defence industry
Brazil began focusing on military industrialization in the late 1960s. This was not driven by militarythreats in the traditional sense. Rather, Brazils lea