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MoD Gives Nod To 7 Frigates Worth Rs 13,000 Cr

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The Ministry of Defence (MoD) approved a Rs 13,000 crores weapons and sensors package for the seven new stealth frigates being constructed by defence shipyards for the Navy as well as accorded the initial approval for the Rs 7,200 crore project to indigenously manufacture 244 air defence guns for the IAF.

Mod gives nod

Details

  • The Rs 13,000 crores package for stealth frigates will be undertaken on a “single vendor and repeat order basis“.
  • The frigates will be equipped with long-range surface-to-air missile (LR-SAM) systems, jointly developed by DRDO and Israeli Aerospace Industries, which are already fitted on the three Kolkata-class destroyers.
  • The package will also include BrahMos supersonic cruise missiles, Ajanta electronic warfare systems and Humsa-NG radars.
  • The over Rs 50,000 crores contract for construction of seven ‘Project-17A’ stealth frigates – four at Mazagon Docks in Mumbai and three in Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers in Kolkata – was inked in February 2015 after clearance from the Cabinet Committee on Security