Made in India military weapons and support systems

[Abingdonboy]

Excalibur MK1A

 

[Water Car Engineer]

 

[Water Car Engineer]

Akash missile launcher, which is being built and mounted on a vehicle at the Tata SED factory in Bangalore.

A Tata SED lab in Bangalore which is providing high-end night vision devices and infra-red based weapons sights for AK-47s and Indian Insas rifles.

The Tata Advanced Systems factory in Hyderabad, where the tail assembly of Lockheed Martin’s C-130J Super Hercules tactical transporter aircraft is being built

 

[Hindustani78]

Ministry of Defence
09-December, 2016 15:30 IST
INSAS Rifles

5.56 mm INSAS rifle was inducted into service in 1994. As its replacement, Request for Proposal (RFP) for procurement of New Generation Assault Rifle was issued on multi-vendor basis, in November 2011, after obtaining Acceptance of Necessity (AoN) from Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) for procuring rifle under ‘Buy and Make with Transfer of Technology’. However, the trials did not result in a clear compliant model in General Staff (GS) Evaluation. Therefore, Request for Proposal (RFP) was retracted in June 2015.

Indian Army, after detailed deliberations, has revised the caliber for new Assault Rifle to 7.62 x 51 mm to meet the desired operational parameters. Accordingly, Request for Information (RFI) for new Assault Rifle (7.62 x 51 mm) was uploaded on Ministry of Defence Website in September 2016.

This information was given by Minister of State for Defence Dr Subhash Bhamre in a written reply to Shri Baijayant Jay Panda in Lok Sabha today.

 

[bloo]

T-Rex
Long Range Reconnaissance and Observation System
from TONBO IMAGING.

T-Rex is an advanced long range reconnaissance and observation system. It includes a very long range day optical imager and a cooled area scan thermal imager integrated with a 20km eye safe laser range finder, GPS and magnetic compass all in one compact and modular system

It is also equipped with advanced algorithms to perform intrusion detection and can also act as a long range passive IR search and track system.

T-Rex images simultaneously in the visible and mid wave IR spectrum providing fused imagery that gives greater situational awareness and panoramic views can be generated from IR, Visible or FUSED imagery.

The system can detect threats in day, night, obscurant conditions, range to the target at an eyesafe wavelength, and calculate grid coordinates with its own GPS, Elevation, Azimuth capability.

P.S. doesn't the pic look like its from the LOC?

Also from Tonbo:

DuVi-B
Digitally Fused Night Vision Goggles

 

[Zarvan]

T-Rex
Long Range Reconnaissance and Observation System
from TONBO IMAGING.

T-Rex is an advanced long range reconnaissance and observation system. It includes a very long range day optical imager and a cooled area scan thermal imager integrated with a 20km eye safe laser range finder, GPS and magnetic compass all in one compact and modular system

It is also equipped with advanced algorithms to perform intrusion detection and can also act as a long range passive IR search and track system.

T-Rex images simultaneously in the visible and mid wave IR spectrum providing fused imagery that gives greater situational awareness and panoramic views can be generated from IR, Visible or FUSED imagery.

The system can detect threats in day, night, obscurant conditions, range to the target at an eyesafe wavelength, and calculate grid coordinates with its own GPS, Elevation, Azimuth capability.

P.S. doesn't the pic look like its from the LOC?

Also from Tonbo:

DuVi-B
Digitally Fused Night Vision Goggles

Looks great stuff any plans to induct them and issue them to each soldier ?

 

[bloo]

Looks great stuff any plans to induct them and issue them to each soldier ?

Very little is known about what products Tonbo sold to the army.
Recon and surveillance systems are the only ones I'm sure were sold, as for the tactical body worn and weapon sights, they are either not used by IA or are used in very small numbers maybe by the Spec Op units of the army. As for plans, maybe Tonbo products are a part of the F-INSAS program, who knows!
I'm guessing Tonbo are far ahead of any other Indian defence company in the field of imaging & optics.

 

[Hindustani78]

Private Indian company made Survelliance cameras.


DarVi DCST-30

DarVi DCST-310

DarVi DCST-320

DarVi DCST-330

DarVi DCST-340

DarVi DCST-350

 

[Water Car Engineer]

Very little is known about what products Tonbo sold to the army.
Recon and surveillance systems are the only ones I'm sure were sold, as for the tactical body worn and weapon sights, they are either not used by IA or are used in very small numbers maybe by the Spec Op units of the army. As for plans, maybe Tonbo products are a part of the F-INSAS program, who knows!
I'm guessing Tonbo are far ahead of any other Indian defence company in the field of imaging & optics.

Looks great stuff any plans to induct them and issue them to each soldier ?

You're going to see more of their products in the users hands(individual soldiers), Indian systems(DRDO, etc. developed), even outside systems being used by India.

They're going for big contracts, FICV, INSAS replacement etc, etc. They just won a contract for the Peruvian rifle tender. In a partnership with USA's UWS. Rifle by UWS, sights by Tonbo. They're going to pitch the same for the INSAS replacement.


http://thetechportal.com/2016/10/12/defence-startup-tonbo-imaging-100million-contract/

You can see their stabilized sights on Arjun's RCWS.


Right now they get more money from outside contracts, I think that will change.

 

[bloo]

You're going to see more of their products in the users hands(individual soldiers), Indian systems(DRDO, etc. developed), even outside systems being used by India.

They're going for big contracts, FICV, INSAS replacement etc, etc. They just won a contract for the Peruvian rifle tender. In a partnership with USA's UWS. Rifle by UWS, sights by Tonbo. They're going to pitch the same for the INSAS replacement.


http://thetechportal.com/2016/10/12/defence-startup-tonbo-imaging-100million-contract/

You can see their stabilized sights on Arjun's RCWS.


Right now they get more money from outside contracts, I think that will change.

I completely forgot Arjun was using ELPEOS as its EOFCS.

 

[Crixus]

Given the chance Indian private companies can deliever the quality products ...but alas for Indian political leader ship the arms procurement is the best way to fill their coffers with money .

I am sure if given change , punj lyod , Bharat forge and Tatas can maker great small arms and ammunition , atleast for paramilitary and police we can use in house weapons

You're going to see more of their products in the users hands(individual soldiers), Indian systems(DRDO, etc. developed), even outside systems being used by India.

They're going for big contracts, FICV, INSAS replacement etc, etc. They just won a contract for the Peruvian rifle tender. In a partnership with USA's UWS. Rifle by UWS, sights by Tonbo. They're going to pitch the same for the INSAS replacement.


http://thetechportal.com/2016/10/12/defence-startup-tonbo-imaging-100million-contract/

You can see their stabilized sights on Arjun's RCWS.


Right now they get more money from outside contracts, I think that will change.

 

[niaz]

Excalibur MK1A

I admit I am not keeping up to date on the Indian military equipment; entirely my fault as I spend too much time on reading history books.

There was a talk about 6 months back that INAS Ex Calibre rifle is going to be replaced by a new 7.62 x 51 rifle and India was in a process of issuing a tender to purchase about 185,000 new assault rifles from the international market in the first phase.

Can anyone enlighten this ignorant man (me) a little more on this subject?

 

[Abingdonboy]

I admit I am not keeping up to date on the Indian military equipment; entirely my fault as I spend too much time on reading history books.

There was a talk about 6 months back that INAS Ex Calibre rifle is going to be replaced by a new 7.62 x 51 rifle and India was in a process of issuing a tender to purchase about 185,000 new assault rifles from the international market in the first phase.

Can anyone enlighten this ignorant man (me) a little more on this subject?

The 7.62mm rifle competition is to replace the Indian Army's Counter Terror/Insurgency rifle (the AK series), their standard issue "battle rifle" will remain the INSAS/Excalibre for now with the 5.56mm round, to be replaced by the MCIWS starting. 2019/20.

 

[Hindustani78]

Ministry of Defence
16-December, 2016 15:02 IST
Modern Arms and Equipment

Procurement of defence equipment is undertaken from various domestic as well as foreign vendors, based on threat perceptions, operational challenges and technological changes and to keep the Armed Forces in a state of readiness to meet the entire spectrum of security challenges.

During the last two financial years, 73 contracts involving a value of Rs. 72,303.34 crore were signed with Indian vendors and 35 contracts involving a value of Rs. 40,433.47 crore were signed with foreign vendors for capital procurement of defence equipment.

Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) is primarily involved in design and development of strategic, complex and security sensitive systems in the fields of armaments, missiles, unmanned aerial vehicles, radars, electronic warfare systems, sonars, combat vehicles, combat aircraft, sensor etc for the Armed Forces as per their specific Qualitative Requirements. DRDO also interacts with public and private companies in technology development projects.

This information was given by Minister of State for Defence Dr. Subhash Bhamre in a written reply to Shri Ravneet Singh in Lok Sabha today.

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Ministry of Defence
16-December, 2016 14:41 IST

Projects of DRDO

The following five projects that have been short closed/abandoned by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) during the last three years and the current year. The project-wise details are given below:


Project-1: Missile Mass Properties Measurement System:


Sanctioned Cost: Rs 10.00 Cr

Expenditure : Rs 5.7779 Cr


Reasons for abandoning/short closure: Monitoring Committee recommended short closure due to uncertainty of importing/realizing a critical component viz. air bearing.


Project-2: Development of Four Stroke Horizontally Opposed Four Cylinder Engine for UAV:


Sanctioned Cost: Rs 45.80Cr

Expenditure : Rs 2.7617 Cr


Reasons for abandoning / short closure: Change in User requirements.


Project-3: Fabrication of Fifty Five Numbers of Sudershan Mark-I Kits for Evaluation Trials:


Sanctioned Cost: Rs 85.13Cr

Expenditure : Rs 11.34 Cr


Reasons for abandoning/short closure: Change in User requirements.


Project-4: Multi Mission Radar:


Sanctioned Cost: Rs 193.44Cr

Expenditure : Rs 6.6033 Cr


(Outstanding commitments of Rs.3.9773 Cr transferred to Project ‘QRSAM’).

Reasons for abandoning/short closure: Activities subsumed to Project QR-SAM.


Project-5: Semantic Service Oriented Architecture:


Sanctioned Cost: Rs 4.90Cr

Expenditure: Rs 0.1856 Cr


Reasons for abandoning/short closure: Project reformulated with a revised scope and comprehensive definition. A new project Multi-Agent Robotics System (MARS) taken thereafter.


This information was given by Minister of State for Defence Dr. Subhash Bhamre in a written reply to Shri Rajendra Agrawal in Lok Sabha today.

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Ministry of Defence
16-December, 2016 14:55 IST
Make in India in Defence Sector

The Government has not conducted any study to find out the areas of opportunities and challenges in the defence sector in achieving the objectives of the scheme. However, the Government had set up a ‘Committee of Experts in May 2015 for amendments to Defence Procurement Procedure (DPP) - 2013 including formulation of Policy Framework to facilitate ‘Make in India’. Based on recommendations of the Committee, the new Defence Procurement Procedure (DPP) - 2016 has been promulgated for capital procurements and has come into effect from 1st April 2016. DPP-2016 has a focus on achieving the “Make in India” vision by according topmost priority to ‘Buy Indian – IDDM (Indian Designed, Developed and Manufactured) and ‘Buy (Indian)’ categories. It also focuses on enhancement and rationalization of indigenous content. The ‘Make’ Procedure has been simplified with provisions for funding of 90% of development cost by the Government to Indian industry and reserving projects not exceeding development cost of Rs. 10 crores (Government funded) and Rs.3 crores (Industry funded) for MSMEs.

In addition to above, the Government has taken several policy initiatives in pursuance to ‘Make in India’ initiative, such as liberalization of FDI policy & Industrial Licensing policy, simplification of export procedures, streamlining of defence offset guidelines, creating level playing field for Indian private and public sector companies, thereby giving priority to indigenous weapons/equipment.

The Army Institute of Management Technology which imparts education only to wards of all ranks of Army towards award of Masters in Business Administration(MBA), conducted a Seminar on “Make in India’ in May 2015 as part of teaching curriculum.

This information was given by Minister of State for Defence Dr. Subhash Bhamre in a written reply to Shri Ramsinh Rathwa in Lok Sabha today.

DM/NAMPI/RAJ
(Release ID :155528)

 

[Water Car Engineer]

L&T Facility Producing Pinaka System