NEW DELHI: India and Britain recently agreed to enhance cooperation in the field of defense paving the way for working out joint defense production and marketing arrangements and assigning defense subcontracts to India. The far reaching understanding: on cooperation’ in defense production was reached at a high level meeting the visiting British Under Secretary of defense, Lord Camborne, had with the Defense Minister, Sharad Pawar. The two countries have identified certain specific armaments systems for collaboration and supply by India in the subcontracting system. There are a large number of countries in the GULE and the South East Asian region which deploy British armaments and under the understanding, Indian defense units, which have better production terms would Supply spares and subsystems.
Lord Cranbome and a top level British defense Industry delegator earlier visited Hindustan Aeronautics Limited and Bharat Electronics (BEL), Bangalore, and Bharat Dynamics, Hyderabad, and assessed the production facilities and other technical and management capabilities of these units for working out joint production.
Article extracted from this publication >> March 19, 1993
