NEW DELHI: The defence ministry on Tuesday gave the preliminary approval for 10 army modernisation initiatives price over Rs 1.4 lakh crore, together with 1,770 futuristic tanks for the Military and 7 superior multi-role stealth frigates for the Navy within the long-term, with the ever-expanding menace from China figuring excessive on the radar.
The Rajnath Singh-led Defence Acquisitions Council (DAC) additionally accepted 4 “amendments” to the over Rs 50,000-crore deal for 26 Rafale-Marine fighters at the moment being negotiated with France.
One of many amendments accepted was to drop the proposed integration of the AESA (superior electronically scanned array) radar being developed by DRDO with the French fighters, which can primarily function from India’s new plane service INS Vikrant. “The indigenous radar integration would have confirmed very expensive and time-consuming. The intention is to ink the contract for the 22 single-seat jets and 4 twin-seat trainers inside this fiscal,” a supply advised TOI.
The primary DAC takeaways had been the grant of the “acceptance of necessity (AoN)” to the Rs 72,000 crore venture to assemble seven frigates, with superior stealth options in addition to the newest weapons and sensors, and the Rs 57,000 crore programme for the longer term prepared fight autos (FRCVs) or tanks.
The Military needs to induct the 1,770 FRCVs, with superior mobility and all-terrain skill, multilayered safety and real-time situational consciousness, precision and deadly firepower, from 2030 onwards.
The induction shall be performed in three phases, with 590 tanks within the first lot, to progressively substitute the prevailing fleet of two,400 Russian-origin T-72 tanks. Every section will see induction of newer applied sciences to make sure the best stage of survivability, lethality and agility, as was earlier reported by TOI.
The primary of the seven new frigates, with a displacement of round 7,000-tonne, may even roll out solely by 2031-32 on the earliest beneath Undertaking-17B. “It’ll take three years to ink the contract after the bidding and choice course of,” one other supply stated.
The Navy, by the way, is slated to get seven 6,670-tonne Nilgiri-class stealth frigates already being constructed beneath the Rs 45,000 crore Undertaking-17A – 4 at Mazagon Docks in Mumbai and three at GRSE in Kolkata – within the 2024-26 time-frame. Of the entire price of AoNs accorded on Tuesday, 99% had been from home sources beneath the Purchase (Indian) and Purchase (Indian, indigenously designed developed and manufactured) classes, the MoD stated.
They embrace procurement of air defence hearth management radars, which can detect and observe aerial targets after which present a firing answer, “ahead restore group (tracked)” autos, which have appropriate cross-country mobility for finishing up in-situ repairs throughout mechanized operations by tanks and infantry fight autos, for the Military.
The Coast Guard, in flip, will get extra Dornier-228 plane in addition to next-generation quick patrol vessels and offshore patrol vessels with superior applied sciences for enhanced long-range operations.
The Rajnath Singh-led Defence Acquisitions Council (DAC) additionally accepted 4 “amendments” to the over Rs 50,000-crore deal for 26 Rafale-Marine fighters at the moment being negotiated with France.
One of many amendments accepted was to drop the proposed integration of the AESA (superior electronically scanned array) radar being developed by DRDO with the French fighters, which can primarily function from India’s new plane service INS Vikrant. “The indigenous radar integration would have confirmed very expensive and time-consuming. The intention is to ink the contract for the 22 single-seat jets and 4 twin-seat trainers inside this fiscal,” a supply advised TOI.
The primary DAC takeaways had been the grant of the “acceptance of necessity (AoN)” to the Rs 72,000 crore venture to assemble seven frigates, with superior stealth options in addition to the newest weapons and sensors, and the Rs 57,000 crore programme for the longer term prepared fight autos (FRCVs) or tanks.
The Military needs to induct the 1,770 FRCVs, with superior mobility and all-terrain skill, multilayered safety and real-time situational consciousness, precision and deadly firepower, from 2030 onwards.
The induction shall be performed in three phases, with 590 tanks within the first lot, to progressively substitute the prevailing fleet of two,400 Russian-origin T-72 tanks. Every section will see induction of newer applied sciences to make sure the best stage of survivability, lethality and agility, as was earlier reported by TOI.
The primary of the seven new frigates, with a displacement of round 7,000-tonne, may even roll out solely by 2031-32 on the earliest beneath Undertaking-17B. “It’ll take three years to ink the contract after the bidding and choice course of,” one other supply stated.
The Navy, by the way, is slated to get seven 6,670-tonne Nilgiri-class stealth frigates already being constructed beneath the Rs 45,000 crore Undertaking-17A – 4 at Mazagon Docks in Mumbai and three at GRSE in Kolkata – within the 2024-26 time-frame. Of the entire price of AoNs accorded on Tuesday, 99% had been from home sources beneath the Purchase (Indian) and Purchase (Indian, indigenously designed developed and manufactured) classes, the MoD stated.
They embrace procurement of air defence hearth management radars, which can detect and observe aerial targets after which present a firing answer, “ahead restore group (tracked)” autos, which have appropriate cross-country mobility for finishing up in-situ repairs throughout mechanized operations by tanks and infantry fight autos, for the Military.
The Coast Guard, in flip, will get extra Dornier-228 plane in addition to next-generation quick patrol vessels and offshore patrol vessels with superior applied sciences for enhanced long-range operations.
