cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/39455169
After agreeing to Design a 120-140kn jet engine together, now Safran and India's Bharat Electronics Ltd (BEL) have joined hands to produce HAMMER precision guided Air to Surface weapon system indigenously in India.
Highly Agile Modular Munition Extended Range (HAMMER) is known throughout the world for it's precision in modular design. It has been inducted in Indian Airforce and now is going to become the cornerstone of Indigenous Platform for the IAF for its own class.
The IAF used this same weapon during Operation Sindoor and was deemed as highly effective by the IAF in destroying fortified targets. The battlefield validation makes it a safe and tactically enhancing choice.
The manufacturing of it will be done under Joint Venture Cooperation Agreement (JVCA) in which both BEL and Safran establish a Join Venture Company (JVC) with equal shareholding (50:50). We can call it the BrahMos Model for Air to Ground Munitions.
The agreement was signed by BEL chairman Manoj Jain and SED Executive and Vice President Alexandre Ziegler in the presence of other officials.
This Partnership will severely strengthen indigenous production as technology transfer to BEL will greatly benefit the country and Local Producttion.
I think it is a great initiative by the Goverenment of India and a smart approach as after this, we can also develop our own, fully indigenous, better version of HAMMER through the technology acquired from France not only that, we will also get our own specific Company to research and manufacture similar better versions of this weapon in future that too locally.
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