* Mumbai - Tata Motors to sell Indian Army with high mobility vehicles
-- 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 needed for a variety of roles from transporting men and material to being the platform for and surface to air missile systems - 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 border 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... 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...
(Photo: 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... The vehicles are needed for a variety of roles from transporting men and material to being the platform for multi barrel rocket launchers) -- Fort, Mumbai, India - The Economic Times - 21 Jan,2016Labels: military trucks, truck sales, truckmakers news India
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