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The procurement tender for the 30mm weapon systems, which person an effectual scope of 4-6 km, has been issued to defence PSU Advance Weapon and Equipment India Ltd (AWEIL)
NEW DELHI: The Indian Army is going for exigency acquisition of six mobile AK-630 multi-barrel aerial defence weapon systems, successful what is different measurement towards protecting colonisation centres from hostile drones, loiter munitions, rockets and mortars on the borderline with Pakistan.The procurement tender for the 30mm weapon systems, which person an effectual scope of 4-6 km, has been issued to defence PSU Advance Weapon and Equipment India Ltd (AWEIL). "The declaration volition beryllium inked nether the fast-track exigency procurement mechanics approved aft Operation Sindoor. More specified guns, which enactment arsenic close-in limb systems due to the fact that of their precocious complaint of fire, volition beryllium ordered astatine a aboriginal stage," an serviceman said connected Saturday.The AK-630 weapon systems are mounted connected trailers and towed by high-mobility vehicles, which connection flexibility and accelerated deployment. The weapon strategy is susceptible of a cyclic complaint of occurrence up to 3,000 rounds per minute, which creates a partition of aerial defence shells to destruct approaching hostile aerial objects astatine adjacent ranges."It has an all-weather occurrence power strategy for people detection and engagement during time and nighttime arsenic good arsenic adverse upwind conditions. The AK-630 strategy volition beryllium integrated into the Army's wider aerial defence command-and-control architecture Akashteer," the serviceman said.
This comes soon aft the Army Air Defence (AAD) kicked disconnected the acquisition process for 3 highly mobile regiments of the caller indigenous speedy absorption surface-to-air rocket (QRSAM) systems, which tin observe and destruct force aircraft, onslaught helicopters, drones, rockets and missiles astatine ranges of implicit 30 km, astatine a outgo of astir Rs 30,000 crore, arsenic was reported by TOI past month.India's existing multi-layered aerial defence web of overseas and indigenous systems played a important relation successful thwarting aggregate waves of Turkish-origin drones and Chinese missiles launched by Pakistan during the four-day struggle successful May. The AAD is besides readying to spell for "smart and programmable ammunition" for the L-70 and ZU-23mm guns arsenic good arsenic the caller rapidly deployable counter-UAS (unmanned aerial systems) guns and counter-RAM (rocket, artillery and mortar) weapons.
