Gandhinagar: Navratna Defence PSU Bharat Electronics Ltd (BEL) has signed an MoU with Munitions India Limited (MIL), a Defence PSU, to jointly address the requirements of Indian Defence and Export markets in the areas of Ammunition, Explosives, and related systems.
Mr. Bhanu Prakash Srivastava, Director (Other Units), BEL, and Mr. S K Rout, Director (Operations), MIL, exchanged the MoU documents at Defexpo today in the presence of Mr. Ravi Kant, CMD, MIL, Mr. Joydeep Majumder, Executive Director, BEL and other senior officers of BEL and MIL.
The MoU aims at leveraging the complementary strengths and capabilities of BEL and MIL and strengthens the spirit of the Make In India initiative of the Government of India, for achieving self-reliance in Defence Sector. The cooperation will enable the companies to jointly address the domestic and Export opportunities in the areas of Ammunition, Explosives, and related systems and subsystems.
About MIL
MIL is a DPSU under Department of Defence Production, Ministry of Defence, Government of lndia. MIL, India’s largest manufacturer & market leader, is engaged in the design, development and manufacture of various types of ammunition and explosives including Small, Medium and High Caliber ammunition, Mortars, Rockets, Hand Grenades, High Explosives, Propellants, Initiathe tory Compositions etc.
About BEL
Bharat Electronics Ltd (BEL), a Navratna DPSU under the Ministry of Defence, Government of India, established in 1954 at Bengaluru, to meet the needs of the Indian defence services for electronics Equipment’s, Systems, and Services. Over the years BEL has grown into a multi-product, multi-technology, multi-unit company engaged in the design, development, manufacturing, supply and support of wide range of defence electronics products, systems, strategic components, services and select non defence products, servicing the needs of customers in India and abroad.
BEL has a strong presence in Radar and Fire Control Systems, Weapon Systems, Communication, Network Centric Systems (C4I), Electronic Warfare Systems, Avionics, Anti-Submarine Warfare Systems & Sonars, Electro-Optics, Tank Electronics, , Homeland Security, , Gun Upgrades, Strategic Components etc. BEL has been continuously striving to expand its solutions for the Non-Defence domain like EVMs, Renewable energy, Energy storage products, Smart Cities, Jammers, Software etc.
Further BEL has diversified into Arms & Ammunitions, Seekers & Missiles, Unmanned Systems, Network & Cyber security, Medical Electronics, Space Electronics, EV , Railway/Metro, Civil Aviations to meet the customer requirement and address the emerging opportunities.
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