DAC Clears Light Multipurpose Armored Vehicle For Army

[Kunal Biswas]

New developments are being copied from other post, Go through it ..

What is the progress on these ? Have these been inducted ? What's the current status ?

 

[WolfPack86]

Tata light armoured multi purpose vechile

 

[WolfPack86]

Tata light armoured multi purpose vechile

 

[WolfPack86]

Tata Motors’ defence solutions wing unveiled the Light Armoured Multipurpose Vehicle (LAMV) at the DefExpo India 2014. The LAMV was designed indigenously with technical inputs from Supacat of UK. It is projected as a light patrol vehicle.

The LAMV gets a water cooled turbocharged intercooled engine that is BS IV capable. It gets a 5-speed gearbox and full hydraulic brakes and an electro-hydraulic parking brake. It gets four run flat tyres that get a CTIS system (Central Tire Inflation System) and is all-wheel drive.

The MPV has an 8 tonne GVW and a payload of around 1.5 tonnes and can seat four. It gets an automatic transmission, all wheel independent double wishbone suspension with air spring and hydraulic damper with self-level capability.

The LAMV integrates a monocoque composite material pod with a full length high hardness steel bottom V hull for blast protection. The protection offered by the LAMV varies between Stanag II (a) and (b) for blast and Stanag II for ballistic protection. All four seats are mine-protected.

The crew in the pod are equipped with two individual display units on the dashboard and has provisions to integrate electro optic system, radio, iGPS and a driver assistance camera.
The LAMV gets a GPS system and an inertial positioning system and gets CCD cameras, thermal imagers and laser range finders with a detection range of upto 10 km, recognition of upto 6 km and identification of 3.5 km.

 

[WolfPack86]

Tata light armoured multi purpose vechile

 

[WolfPack86]

StratPost | Tata Motors' armored vehicles at DefExpo

 

[tejas warrior]

Tata light armoured multi purpose vechile

These can surely work as an upgrade from Maruti Zipsy.. have TATA's received any orders yet ?

 

[republic_roi97]

Is there any new story about Tata LAMV ? I mean these pictures are going to be nearly 3 years old and I cannot find any sort of development, Is army testing it or is it still under development ??

 

[ezsasa]

Decision on four key defence deals put off
NEW DELHI: The defence ministry on Monday deferred decisions on four crucial acquisition projects, including the one for procuring 145 M-777 ultra-light howitzers worth $885 million from the US, even as it cleared other proposals worth over Rs 13,000 crore for missiles, thermal imaging sights for tanks and modernisation of airbases.

Apart from the howitzers, the A K Antony-chaired Defence Acquisitions Council (DAC) postponed decisions on four amphibious warships (landing platform docks), 16 naval multi-role helicopters and 56 transport aircraft to replace the ageing Avro fleet of the IAF.

The projects cleared included the up-gradation of 37 more IAF airbases (Rs 1,125 crore), modernization of five ordnance depots (Rs 1,800 crore), 4,000 hand-held thermal imagers for soldiers (Rs 1,400 crore), 5,000 thermal imaging sights for tanks and infantry combat vehicles (Rs 2,825 crore), 44,000 light-machine guns (Rs 1,328 crore) and 702 light armoured multi-purpose vehicles (Rs 1,200 crore). The DAC also approved the acquisition of 250 Israeli Spice missiles or "stand-off autonomous air-to-ground weapon systems" for IAF fighter jets.
The M-777 howitzer contract, which is a direct government-to-government deal under the US foreign military sales programme, has been hanging fire since January 2010. Due to the long delay, the American Defence Security Cooperation Agency has hiked the cost of the M-777 deal from the earlier $ 647 million to $885 million now. The Army wants these 155mm/39-calibre howitzers since they can be swiftly deployed in high-altitude areas in Arunachal Pradesh and Ladakh by helicopters and aircraft to counter China.

The proposed Rs 13,000-crore project to supply 56 transport aircraft to IAF, in turn, was meant to promote private sector entry into the domestic aerospace arena. But it has got stuck after heavy industries and public enterprises minister Praful Patel raised questions about why state-run units were being kept out of the project.

The case for 16 multi-role helicopters, with potent anti-submarine warfare (ASW) capabilities, is equally crucial with the Navy first initiating the case a decade ago. But the government's slow decision-making process, coupled with squabbling between contenders European NH-90 and American Sikorsky-70B helicopters, has put paid to all plans.
This contract is crucial since it's to be followed by a bigger one for 123 helicopters, in the 9 to 12.5-tonne class with ASW capabilities as well as customized for amphibious assaults and commando operations, at a cost of over $3 billion.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...efence-deals-put-off/articleshow/30969620.cms

What's the point of bringing up a 2014 article belonging to previous govt?

 

[republic_roi97]

But what about the 702 LMAV ? A while back we saw a new Panthera LMAV but that is more for riot control and not as an LMAV.

 

[WolfPack86]

Is there any new story about Tata LAMV ? I mean these pictures are going to be nearly 3 years old and I cannot find any sort of development, Is army testing it or is it still under development ??

TATA LAMV
Status : Undergoing trials as of 2015(Completed By 2016) .
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equipment_of_the_Indian_Army

 

[republic_roi97]

TATA LAMV
Status : Undergoing trials as of 2015(Completed By 2016) .
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equipment_of_the_Indian_Army

OK that is a news, but what are the results of these trials ? Trust me I am dying to see LAMV in action.

 

[wraith96]