BEL flags off L70 upgrade for Army

BEL flags off L70 upgrade for Army

BANGLORE. The first two numbers of L70 upgraded guns, designed, developed and manufactured
by  Bharat Electronics Ltd (BEL) for the Indian Army were flagged off from BEL’s Chennai Unit recently. . Mr Amol Newaskar, Director (Other Units), BEL, Mr Charan Singh, General Manager (BEL-Chennai), and other senior officers and staff of BEL-Chennai and were present on the occasion. Senior officers and staff of DGQA also were present.
 
The two upgraded guns were rolled out well ahead of the stipulated timeline of nine months. The L70 gun upgrade is a fusion of the latest technologies in the areas of electrical servo drives, Electro Optical Fire Control System and video tracking, which only a few global companies have mastered.
 
BEL had won the Rs.575-crore order for the L70 gun upgrade in a global open tender issued by the Indian Army, subsequent to clearing all field trials. 

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