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Kalyani Group company Kalyani Strategic Systems Ltd (KSSL) and L&T are the only two Indian companies currently in contention for the towed artillery gun pie that is valued at around ₹15,000 crore.

Field trials for the 155-mm/52 caliber gun — one from the KSSL subsidiary BF-Elbit JV and the other from L&T and French defence major Nexter teaming — are nearing completion and the winner of the order is expected to be declared over the next few months.

The contract involves the supply of 1,500 towed artillery guns for the Indian Army, including 1,100 that must be produced indigenously under the ‘Make-in-India’ initiative.

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The indigenous manufacture is expected to cut the cost of a gun by at least 25 per cent.

The other 400 are to be delivered as complete units from the relevant overseas JV partner in three years’ time.

KSSL has set up a facility that can make 150 guns at Pune and also has land at Jejuri in Maharashtra where a new BF-Elbit facility will be established, Kalyani group Chairman Baba Kalyani toldBusinessLine.

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“Suddenly, we heard a lot of shooting and bombs going off in the near distance. Boom, boom, boom. We were wondering what was happening. We didn’t see any soldiers go through our village or in the surrounding jungles. We assume they must have gone very quietly at night, on foot,” 55-year-old Hemlet Guite, a village elder, said.

It was approximately 8 in the morning when Phaikoh first heard the “sounds of the battle” — around the time its 16 schoolchildren had just begun classes at the village school.

“We did see them coming back, though,” Guite said. “In the afternoon, it must have been two or three o’clock, a stream of Indian Army soldiers started walking into the village. Then the helicopters started coming. They landed on our football field, and the soldiers started to get on. It looked as though there were at least a hundred soldiers. There were two helicopters, and each made three trips. Some of the soldiers left on foot,’’ Guite added.

Sixty-five-year-old Hemkhoshei, a minister of the village council, said it was the first time he saw an Army chopper. “I was very excited. One Armyman told me to shut my eyes because there would be a lot of dust as the machine landed,” he laughed.

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“We have heard that nothing is left of the PLA camp now. But we do not know if the Army managed to reach the UNLF camp. It is on the other side of the mountain, and very difficult to reach,” Hemkhoshei added. According to him, the PLA camp had more than a hundred residents.

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Naval Today said:

As part of an operational deployment to South Indian Ocean and South China Sea, ships of the Indian Navy’s Eastern Fleet under the command of Rear Admiral Ajendra Bahadur Singh, VSM, Flag Officer Commanding Eastern Fleet, arrived today at Kuantan (Malaysia) on a four day visit.

The Indian warships taking part in this deployment are guided missile destroyer INS Ranvir, guided missile stealth frigate INS Satpura, fleet tanker and support ship INS Shakti and INS Kamorta, the latest and indigenous Anti Submarine Warfare corvette. Earlier during their deployment, these warships participated in IMDEX-15 at Singapore and the Indo-Singapore bilateral naval exercise SIMBEX.

India-Malaysia naval cooperation has largely been in the form of training interactions and exchange of goodwill visits by IN and RMN ships.

During the stay in harbour, various activities such as official calls, reception on board, ship open to visitors, guided tours for Indian naval personnel and professional interaction between personnel of both the navies, are planned. On departure, the ship will exercise with Royal Malaysian Naval ships for achieving interoperability in communication and Search and Rescue procedures.

In pursuit of India’s ‘Look East’ and ‘Act East’ policy, the ships had visited Singapore, Jakarta (Indonesia), Freemantle (Australia).

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At least one soldier is believed to have lost a limb in a collision between troop lorries during an Anglo-Indian exercise on Salisbury Plain.

Up to 20 military personnel were injured in the smash just off a public road across the Plain, with the two most severely injured being flown by helicopter to nearby hospital and another eight classed as seriously hurt.

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Police said four or five could have suffered "life-changing" injuries, and military sources said at least one Indian soldier has undergone an amputation.

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Both British and Indian troops were badly hurt, but the majority of injured are Indians, the source said.

Exercise Ajeya Warrior was part of a larger war game called Wessex Storm and involved troops from British units including 6 Rifles and a company of Indian soldiers carrying out mock counter insurgency operations in difficult urban terrain. The crash took place at around 6.30pm on Wednesday, in a field near Westdown Camp.

A spokeswoman from South West Ambulance Service said: "From our perspective we have taken two patients with life threatening injuries, and flown them to Southampton.

"One went with Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance, and the other with Wiltshire Air Ambulance.

"We have taken eight patients with serious injures by road ambulance to Salisbury Hospital.

"We have treated a number of walking wounded - I am saying a number because we don't have a definitive figure."

She said the rescue operation involved a number of land ambulances, volunteer on-call doctors and two ambulance hazardous area response teams - one from Bristol and another from South Central Ambulance Service.

A number of rapid response vehicles were also involved, as well as two critical care paramedics vehicles.

The gender and ages of the injured people, and the nature of their injuries are not yet known.


A spokesperson for Wiltshire Police said: "We received a call from the air ambulance who told us they were attending.

Initially it was believed 16 people were injured but the number has risen to over 20 and paramedics say some are "critical".

A spokesperson for Wiltshire Police said: "We received a call from the air ambulance who told us they were attending.

Initially it was believed 16 people were injured but the number has risen to over 20 and paramedics say some are "critical".

"First responders and three military ambulances were also at the location, a field on The Plain near Westdown Camp.

"It happened on a by-way which cuts through The Plain.

"It is still regarded as a Wiltshire Police matter as it's on a by-way, although it's off the main road."

It is not yet known which hospitals the injured soldiers were taken to for treatment.

A spokesman for the Ministry of Defence said: "We are aware of an incident in the training area of Salisbury Plain. We are not absolutely certain of the details and until we are, we will not be making any comment."

The Royal School of Artillery is based at Larkhill and provides training in the use of artillery equipment, including both technical and tactical training.

A post on the Indian Army's Facebook page prior to the incident said the two armies were currently carrying out a joint exercise called Ajeya Warrior to "enhance their ability to undertake joint tactical level operations in (a) counter insurgency/counter terrorism environment".

Salisbury Plain, a 300-square-mile area of land, which includes the prehistoric stone circle at Stonehenge, is owned by the Ministry of Defence and is Britain's biggest military training area.

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