Earlier this month, the defence ministry signed a contract of over ₹8,000 crore with the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) for acquisition of 24 Advanced Light Helicopters (ALH) Dhruv Mark III for the Indian Army and the Coast Guard. It demonstrates another significant push in the government’s quest for self-reliance in defence. It also shows renewed confidence in the capabilities of HAL which is also making the Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas Mark IA. In this episode of ‘Simply Nitin’, which comes to you from a HAL facility in Bengaluru, StratNews Global Editor-in-Chief Nitin A. Gokhale talks about how the public sector major has ramped up its capabilities and what its forward plans are.
