SunstarTV Bureau: The Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi approved the export of Akash Missile System, informed Defence Minister, today.
Along with export of Akash Missile, a Committee for faster approvals has been created, under the Atma Nirbhar Bharat.
The export version of Akash will be different from System currently deployed with Indian Armed Forces, tweets Defence Minister Rajnath Singh.
Under the #AtmaNirbharBharat, India is growing in its capabilities of manufacturing wide variety of Defence platforms & missiles.
The Cabinet chaired by PM @narendramodi ji today approved the export of Akash Missile System and a Committee for faster Approvals has been created.
— Rajnath Singh (@rajnathsingh) December 30, 2020
Under the Atma Nirbhar Bharat, India is growing in its capabilities of manufacturing wide variety of Defence platforms and missiles.
He further added that Akash is country’s important missile with over 96 percent indigenisation. Akash is a Surface to Air Missile with a range of 25 Kms.
The Government of India intends to focus on exporting high value defence platforms, to achieve target of 5 Billion USD of defence export and improve strategic relations with friendly foreign countries.
So far, Indian defence exports included parts and components etc. The export of big platforms was minimal. This decision by the Cabinet would help the country to improve its defence products and make them globally competitive, informed Rajnath Singh.
