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| A Tatra Truck at India Gate, New Delhi (Image: Wiki) |
By Vivek Raghuvanshi
NEW DELHI — The Indian Defence Ministry has begun a global search to procure unspecified numbers of heavy trucks on which to mount missiles following a ban on acquiring vehicles from Bharat Earth Movers Ltd. (BEML), which has become involved in a bribery scandal.
The current requirement for the Tatra trucks is estimated to be about 1,300 vehicles, mostly to carry missile systems being produced by the Defence Research and Development Organisation, including the Akash surface-to-air missile and the BrahMos cruise missile.
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