Ashok Leyland is a black horse that always steals the show from Tata when it comes to military trucks, so far they have sold 65,000 four-wheel-drive Stallion trucks for the Indian Army which is also sold to foreign countries .Truck which has an 8-litre, 6-cylinder, third generation common rail diesel engine that can deliver 360-400 bhp.
The current bid is for 1,239 units of 6-wheel-drive high-mobility vehicles, 255 units of 8-wheel-drive high mobility vehicles and 100 units of field artillery tractors.
Ashok Leyland and L&T (Collaboration) emerged the lowest bidder for procurement of 100 multibarrel rocket launchers (meant to upgrade the BM21 rocket launchers) . The value of the contract is about Rs 100 crore, according to industry sources.
The contract involves refurbishing the existing rocket launchers and mounting them on new vehicles. The weapons-related work will be done by L&T and the vehicle is a new Ashok Leyland platform. The Leyland-L&T combine left behind a team of Tata Group companies (Tata Motors and Tata Power SED) and a team of Tatra, Bharat Earth Movers and Bharat Electronics.