Tata Motors likely to bag additional order for trucks, taking total order to Rs 1,300 crore

[Abingdonboy]

NEW DELHI: Tata Motors is set to bag an additional order for high mobility military trucks, taking its total order book for the advanced vehicles to Rs 1,300 crore, the single largest contract to be awarded to an Indian manufacturer by the Army.

The high mobility vehicles - needed for a variety of roles from transporting men and material to being the platform for multi barrel rocket launchers and surface to air missile system are in high demand by the Army that has struggled to procure trucks after the Tatra scandal hit headlines in 2012. Authoritative sources have told ET that the Army has formally moved a follow on order to a contract it signed with Tata motors in March last year. The follow on order is to procure 619 new 6X6 High Mobility vehicles that will cost the Army just over Rs 350 crore. This would add to the earlier order for 1,239 vehicles that was valued at Rs 940 crore.



Tata Motors had won the order earlier in a competition that included the Tatra-BEML combine. "We are confident that the vehicles have more than met the requirements of the Indian Army. We are also in the process of increasing the indigenous content on the trucks, including the loading crane that will soon be made fully in India," Vernon Noronha, Vice President, Defence and Government Business, Tata Motors told ET.

Designed for extreme missions including carrying heavy loads of road, the Tata 6x6 has been extensively tested at the VRDE (Vehicle Research & Development Establishment) `torture track' designed to test military vehicles and will be operated in all terrain - from the deserts of Rajasthan to extreme heights and cold in Ladakh and along the Chinese border.


Noronha says that the truck has already been exported by Tata to several countries including Israel and France that are developing missiles systems for the Indian Army. The truck is expected to be the platform for future Multi Barrel Rocket Launchers, Short Range Surface to Air Missiles, Quick Reaction Surface to Air Missiles and Low Level Quick Reaction Missiles.


Tata Motors likely to bag additional order for trucks, taking total order to Rs 1,300 crore - The Economic Times

Possible foreward movement in the Maitri LLQRM project with France then?

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[Rajaraja Chola]

Mahindra and Ashok Leyland should rise their stakes and enter the competition so that IA receives the best product

 

[sathya]

Tata should thank that General who gave testimony against Tatra

 

[Water Car Engineer]

Mahindra and Ashok Leyland should rise their stakes and enter the competition so that IA receives the best product

I dont think Mahindra has a truck like these.

Ashok Leyland and L&T I think won the BM21 upgrade with their own truck.

But AL has several trucks.

It's going to be a battle between TATA and AL.

 

[Rajaraja Chola]

I dont think Mahindra has a truck like these.

Ashok Leyland and L&T I think won the BM21 upgrade with their own truck.

But AL has several trucks.

It's going to be a battle between TATA and AL.

Eicher trucks is not into the military things?

 

[Water Car Engineer]

Eicher trucks is not into the military things?

Maybe a little, but not in the scale of TATA and AL trucks. And I guess also BEML with their license produced Tatras.

 

[Ankit Kumar]

NEW DELHI: Tata Motors is set to bag an additional order for high mobility military trucks, taking its total order book for the advanced vehicles to Rs 1,300 crore, the single largest contract to be awarded to an Indian manufacturer by the Army.

The high mobility vehicles - needed for a variety of roles from transporting men and material to being the platform for multi barrel rocket launchers and surface to air missile system are in high demand by the Army that has struggled to procure trucks after the Tatra scandal hit headlines in 2012. Authoritative sources have told ET that the Army has formally moved a follow on order to a contract it signed with Tata motors in March last year. The follow on order is to procure 619 new 6X6 High Mobility vehicles that will cost the Army just over Rs 350 crore. This would add to the earlier order for 1,239 vehicles that was valued at Rs 940 crore.



Tata Motors had won the order earlier in a competition that included the Tatra-BEML combine. "We are confident that the vehicles have more than met the requirements of the Indian Army. We are also in the process of increasing the indigenous content on the trucks, including the loading crane that will soon be made fully in India," Vernon Noronha, Vice President, Defence and Government Business, Tata Motors told ET.

Designed for extreme missions including carrying heavy loads of road, the Tata 6x6 has been extensively tested at the VRDE (Vehicle Research & Development Establishment) `torture track' designed to test military vehicles and will be operated in all terrain - from the deserts of Rajasthan to extreme heights and cold in Ladakh and along the Chinese border.


Noronha says that the truck has already been exported by Tata to several countries including Israel and France that are developing missiles systems for the Indian Army. The truck is expected to be the platform for future Multi Barrel Rocket Launchers, Short Range Surface to Air Missiles, Quick Reaction Surface to Air Missiles and Low Level Quick Reaction Missiles.


Tata Motors likely to bag additional order for trucks, taking total order to Rs 1,300 crore - The Economic Times

Possible foreward movement in the Maitri LLQRM project with France then?

@PARIKRAMA @Levina @Water Car Engineer @acetophenol @SRP @AMCA @XiNiX @axisofevil @Parul @IndoUS @nair @kbd-raaf @mkb95 @Unknowncommando @ayesha.a @Vauban @SpArK @janon @AUSTERLITZ @Star Wars @MilSpec @ranjeet @hinduguy @scorpionx

Party if VL MICA deal signed this 26th.

Another thing which may happen is a MoU between India and DCNS to help India with our SSN project.

But Raafffaaa.... I don't wanna take its name too.

 

[cloud_9]

I still see plenty of polluting Stallion on Highways around here and sometimes it's the good'ol Shaktiman!

 

[Capt.Popeye]

Eicher trucks is not into the military things?

Only to a limited extent, while they do make 4x4 trucks for the Army which are used as Field Ambulances; they are not truly Hi-Mobility Vehicles. In that segment; there is only BEML-Tatra, TATA and Ashok Leyland that can make truly Hi-Mobility Trucks which are 6x6, 8x8, 10x10 and even 12x12.

 

[Ind4Ever]

Fabulous news hope our private players bags more orders and at the same time invest heavily on R&D on next generation vehicles with robust technology

 

[Water Car Engineer]

Some of the systems integrated to TATA trucks recently.