Subhash Bhamre flags off Larsen & Toubro’s defence systems

TALEGAON, PUNE: Dr. Subhash Bhamre, Union Minister of State, Ministry of Defence, recently flagged off five different Defence systems at Larsen & Toubro’s Strategic Systems Complex (SSC) on the outskirts of Pune.

The systems included PINAKA Multi-Rocket Launcher System (MRLS); Pinaka Battery Command Post - a Fire Control Systems for PINAKA MRLS; indigenously upgraded Grad BM-21 Multi-Barrel Rocket Launcher; Short Span Bridging System (Load Class 70); and P7 Heavy Drop Platform System - for para-dropping equipment and logistic support, in remote areas and bases from IL-76 aircrafts.

“I am extremely happy to see Prime Minister’s Vision of Make in India is getting realised here. The main theme of Make in India is indigenisation and I am even more happy that the Platforms, Weapon & Engineering Systems being built in this Complex has an indigenous content of 70% - 98%, which is a phenomenal achievement,” commented the MoS (Defence)