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Make in India: Defence Acquisition Council approves capital procurement worth Rs 3300Cr
 
New Delhi: Giving a push to Modi Government’s ambitious ‘Make in India’ initiative, the government on Monday accorded approval for capital procurement for the defence forces amounting over Rs 3300 crore of indigenously designed and developed equipment.

The decision was taken by the Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) chaired by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh.

“Maintaining its impetus on the ‘Make in India’ initiative, the DAC accorded approval for three projects to be indigenously designed, developed and manufactured by the Indian industry,” the Ministry of Defence said.

The first two projects include third generation Anti-Tank Guided Missiles (ATGM) and the Auxiliary Power Units (APUs) for the T-72 and T-90 Tanks.

While the third generation ATGM would provide ‘Fire and Forget’ and “Top Attack” capabilities to the troops in an armoured battle, the APUs would enable incorporation of various upgrades to Fire Control System and Night Fighting capabilities of the Tanks.

Both these projects will be progressed under the ‘Make-II’ Category and will provide a boost to indigenous research and development in the Private Sector.

“With this, for the first time the Ministry of Defence has offered complex Military equipment to be designed, developed and manufactured by the Indian private industry,” it added.

The third indigenous project pertains to discrete Electronic Warfare (EW) systems for the mountain and High Altitude terrain, which would be designed and developed by DRDO and manufactured by design cum production partner from the Indian industry.


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