Aero India 2023: os veículos de infantaria futuristas da Índia serão equipados com Javelin ATGMs

India's FICVs will be equipped with American aerospace company Lockheed Martin's Javelin ATGMs. Javelin is a medium-range, manportable, shoulder-fired, fire-and-forget, lock-on before launch ATGM system. (Janes/Kapil Kajal)

India's Futuristic Infantry Combat Vehicles (FICVs) will be equipped with American aerospace company Lockheed Martin's Javelin anti-tank guided missile (ATGM), the company told Janes no show Aero India 2023, que acontece em Bangalore de 13 a 17 de fevereiro.

Jagmohan Singh, Lockheed Martin's regional director of India, Maldives, and Sri Lanka told Janes que as empresas que desenvolvem FICVs para o Exército Indiano estão equipando os veículos com Javelin.

“As empresas como Tata, Larsen e Toubro (L&T), Mahindra e conselhos de fábricas, que estão desenvolvendo FICVs para o Exército Indiano, solicitaram que ATGMs Javelin fossem equipados nos veículos”, disse Singh.

In January, India's Defence Acquisition Council (DAC), chaired by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, approved the procurement of FICVs for the Indian Army. The Indian Army has been trying to procure FICVs to replace its fleets of Boyevaya Mashina Pyekhoty (BMP)-1 and BMP-2 vehicles.