Acquiring advanced surveillance systems that can assist India to keep a close watch on its land borders as well as oceans is the key priority of the Indian armed forces right now, Chief of Defence Staff Bipin Rawat said on Thursday.
“Our first and foremost priority is surveillance. We need anything that can help is in maintaining surveillance on our land borders and on our oceans. This is our first priority,” CDS said at a defence conclave here when asked about the requirements of the Indian armed forces.
“We want to jump the cyber from lower priority to higher priority because we find that our adversary is developing cyber capabilities at a very fast pace,” he added.
CDS Rawat further said that a very rapid change is taking place in the international domain and it is a major advantage to India as there is a collaboration amongst like-minded nations.
