Army taps Bengaluru-based firm for specialised sights in use with forces abroad
New Delhi: The Army has placed orders with an Indian firm for specialised sights under emergency procurement to help some of its elite units operating in both urban warfare and at the borders, ThePrint has learnt.
Sources in the defence and security establishment said the order for two set of sights as part of a spate of emergency procurement being done was placed “recently”.
One contract is for about 600 pieces of multi-functional thermal imaging binoculars for target acquisition and the other is for multi mission-sight, which can be mounted on the helmet and also the weapon. The order was placed with a Bengaluru-based firm — Tonbo Imaging.
The firm, Tonbo Imaging, exports sights and other systems to over two dozen countries. Their products have also been deployed at the LAC, and were used during the 2016 surgical strikes.
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