Aero India 2023: indijska futuristična pehotna vozila bodo opremljena z ATGM-ji Javelin

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 na sejmu Aero India 2023, ki bo od 13. do 17. februarja v Bangaloreju.

Jagmohan Singh, Lockheed Martin's regional director of India, Maldives, and Sri Lanka told Janes that the companies developing FICVs for the Indian Army are equipping the vehicles with Javelin.

“The companies such as Tata, Larsen and Toubro (L&T), Mahindra, and ordinance factory boards, which are developing FICVs for the Indian Army have asked for Javelin ATGMs to be equipped on the vehicles,” Singh said.

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.