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By VIVEK RAGHUVANSHI
NEW DELHI — For the first time, Indian defense companies have been selected for trials in a howitzer gun tender.
The Indian Ministry of Defence has failed to buy a single howitzer gun in the past 13 years because the global competition for a variety of 155mm/52-caliber guns was aborted over the blacklisting of an overseas competitor on charges of corruption.
Larsen & Toubro (L&T), which has tied up with South Korean company Samsung, and state-owned Bharat Earth Movers Ltd. (BEML), which has partnered with Slovakian company Konstrukha, are competing with Russia’s Rosoboron export for the tracked gun tender.
The Indian Army wants to buy 100 tracked guns valued at more than US $750 million.
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