Boost to Make-in-India: PM Modi to dedicate Arjun tanks to nation on Sunday
New Delhi: In one more enhance for Make in India in defence Prime Minister Narendra Modi will dedicate the Main Battle Tank Arjun Mark1A to the nation on Sunday.
In a high-level assembly, the Defence Ministry not too long ago cleared the induction of 118 Arjun Mark1A tanks into the Indian Army which might be price round Rs 8,400 crore and would add to the energy of the drive in land warfare.
“Prime Minister Narendra Modi would be dedicating the latest version of the Arjun tank to the nation on February 14 in Chennai at the tank production facility in Avadi,” Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) officers instructed mediapersons.
The tank has been totally designed and developed by the DRDO in shut coordination with the Indian Army. The 118 tanks can be becoming a member of the fleet of the primary batch of 124 Arjun tanks which have already been inducted into the Army and are deployed within the western desert alongside the Pakistan entrance.
The 118 Arjun tanks would additionally kind two regiments within the Armoured Corps of the Indian Army like the primary 124 tanks.
Officials mentioned the Army has decreased the variety of tanks required for the formation of a tank regiment and that’s the why the current order has six lesser tanks than the earlier order for 2 regiments.
The DRDO has been growing the Arjun Mark 1A for fairly a while now and the venture was hastened by each Chief of Defence Staff Gen Bipin Rawat and DRDO chief Dr G Satheesh Reddy to extend the extent of indigenous weapon programs within the armed forces.
The Arjun has been designed by the DRDO’s Combat Vehicles Research and Development Establishment (CVRDE) and DRDO Chairman Satheesh Reddy will hand the primary Arjun Mark 1A to Prime Minister Modi.
The tanks can be produced by the Ordnance Factory Board’s (OFB) Heavy Vehicles Factory (HVF) Avadi and the primary batch of 5 major battle tanks can be handed over to the military inside two-and-a-half years of the signing of the contract.
