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Russia pushing India to buy BMP-3 vehicles and shelving homemade FICV project | idrw.org
Russia has been aggressively pushing India to buy its infantry combat vehicles BMP-3 and shelve its own analogous project that has got stalled, The FICV project was approved four years ago and has seen practically no progress since that. It envisages the production of 2,600 vehicles to replace the older BMP-2 combat vehicles. The project costs about ten billion dollars, while the government will fund 80 percent of development costs.
The MoD is pursuing this project under the Make procedure of the Defence Procurement Procedure of 2008 (DPP-2008), under which Indian vendors develop major defence platforms. The MoD funds 80% of the cost of developing a prototype that must be at least 30% indigenous; the Indian DAs pays the remaining 20%.
Russia has offered to transfer BMP-3 combat vehicle technology to India if India cancels its project, an Indian Defense Ministry source said. This has more sense for India, as its homemade Futuristic Infantry Combat Vehicle (FICV) can be commissioned no earlier than in ten years time.
Source close to idrw.org have told us that Army is not entirely satisfied with BMP-3 , when it was tested in India it had failed is some key areas, another Source pointed out that BMP-3 is still based on a Three decade old design and will not cover new threats a infantry combat vehicle will have to face in near future .
Russia has been aggressively pushing India to buy its infantry combat vehicles BMP-3 and shelve its own analogous project that has got stalled, The FICV project was approved four years ago and has seen practically no progress since that. It envisages the production of 2,600 vehicles to replace the older BMP-2 combat vehicles. The project costs about ten billion dollars, while the government will fund 80 percent of development costs.
The MoD is pursuing this project under the Make procedure of the Defence Procurement Procedure of 2008 (DPP-2008), under which Indian vendors develop major defence platforms. The MoD funds 80% of the cost of developing a prototype that must be at least 30% indigenous; the Indian DAs pays the remaining 20%.
Russia has offered to transfer BMP-3 combat vehicle technology to India if India cancels its project, an Indian Defense Ministry source said. This has more sense for India, as its homemade Futuristic Infantry Combat Vehicle (FICV) can be commissioned no earlier than in ten years time.
Source close to idrw.org have told us that Army is not entirely satisfied with BMP-3 , when it was tested in India it had failed is some key areas, another Source pointed out that BMP-3 is still based on a Three decade old design and will not cover new threats a infantry combat vehicle will have to face in near future .
