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Prime Minister Narendra Modi volition sojourn Larsen & Tubro's Hazira works during his sojourn to Surat connected Friday. This volition beryllium PM Modi's archetypal sojourn to this installation since 2019. This works is progressively increasing successful value successful the abstraction of nationalist defence.
The L&T Hazira installation is an precocious concern analyzable that is simply a hub for defence and dense engineering projects.
The installation has besides been visited by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh successful January 2020. Both the Prime Minister and the Defence Minister were showcased the K-9 Thunder during their respective visits.
The L&T works astatine Hazira is the largest backstage shaper of tracked armoured vehicles successful the country.
The archetypal large defence instrumentality to beryllium rolled retired of this installation was the army's K-9 Vajra tracked mean artillery gun. A 100 of these artillery guns person been delivered to the army. These guns person been deployed successful the precocious altitude areas of Eastern Ladakh during the ongoing deployment connected the Line of Actual Control.
The authorities has cleared an bid of an further 100 of these artillery guns for the army.The installation besides became a absorption of nationalist attraction erstwhile the archetypal Zorawar airy vessel was rolled retired of the AM Naik Heavy Engineering Complex astatine the facility.
The vessel was designed, developed and rolled retired astatine a grounds velocity of 19-months. The Zorawar airy vessel was designed to beryllium deployed to combat successful the precocious altitude terrain of the precocious Himalayas. This conveyance is presently undergoing trials.
The works is besides processing L&T's introduction to the Indian Army's Futuristic Infantry Combat Vehicle (FICV) program. The FICV is expected to regenerate the Indian Army's fleet of the Soviet root BMP-2 Infantry Fighting Vehicles (IFVs). During PM MOdi's 2019 sojourn to the facility, helium was shown the prototypes of L&T's instrumentality connected the FICV program. Other Indian firms specified arsenic Tata, Mahindra Defence, Bharat Forge and Armoured Vehicles Nigam Limited are besides contenders for the FICV program.With larger orders of the Zorawar airy vessel and if L&T's FICV programme is selected by the army, past Hazira could go 1 of the astir important centres of defence accumulation successful India.
