NEW DELHI: The Defence Acquisition Council (DAC), chaired by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, on Friday accorded Acceptance of Necessity (AoN) for 9 capital acquisition proposals of approx Rs 45,000 crore, the Defence Ministry mentioned. The AoN for procurement of 12 Su-30 MKI plane with related gear from Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) was additionally accorded, official added.
In response to the Defence Ministry, to boost safety, mobility, assault functionality and elevated survivability of mechanised forces, the DAC accorded AoN for procurement of Gentle Armoured Multipurpose Automobiles (LAMV) and Built-in Surveillance and Focusing on System (ISAT-S).
It additionally cleared AoN for procurement of Excessive Mobility Car (HMV) and Gun Towing Automobiles for swift mobilisation and deployment of artillery weapons and radars.
The DAC additionally accepted procurement of Subsequent Technology Survey Vessels for the Indian Navy which is able to tremendously improve its capabilities in performing hydrographic operations, a ministry official added.
All these procurements shall be created from Indian distributors underneath Purchase (Indian-Indigenously Designed Developed and Manufactured (IDMM)/Purchase (Indian) class which is able to give substantial enhance to the Indian defence Business in the direction of attaining the objective of ‘Aatmanirbhar Bharat’, the official added.
The DAC additionally accorded AoN for proposals of the Indian Air Pressure which included avionic upgradation of Dornier plane to enhance the accuracy and reliability for operations. The procurement of Dhruvastra Quick Vary Air-to-Floor Missile as a potent indigenous precision-guided weapon for indigenously-built ALH Mk-IV helicopters has been cleared.
Throughout the assembly, Rajnath Singh acknowledged that it’s time to improve the ambitions in the direction of indigenisation. “Somewhat than a threshold of 50 per cent indigenous content material for IDDM initiatives, we should always goal for a minimal 60-65 per cent indigenous content material,” he mentioned.
He directed the Chief of Defence Employees, Service Chiefs, Defence Secretary and the DG, Acquisition, to work in the direction of growing the minimal indigenous content material threshold in session with the Indian Business, the official added.
