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MoD inks ₹1,200cr contract with PSU for 5,000 anti-tank missiles | India News – Times of India

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NEW DELHI: The defence ministry on Friday inked a Rs 1,188 crore contract with defence PSU Bharat Dynamics Limited (BDL) for the supply of 4,960 Milan-2T anti-tank guided missiles (ATGMs) to the Army.
The contract for these old secondgeneration ATGMs, with a range of 1.8-km, comes in the backdrop of the over 13-lakh Army facing an acute shortage of advanced missiles to thwart enemy tanks. The Army had last year gone in for the emergency induction of a limited number of the third-generation Israeli Spike ATGMs to meet immediate operational requirements amidst the military confrontation with China in eastern Ladakh, as was then reported by TOI.
With the indigenous third-generation Nag ATGMs yet to be inducted, the Army is currently largely equipped with the Milan-2T and Konkurs (4-km) ATGMs, which have been produced by BDL under licence from French and Russian companies for years.

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Lt Col shoots himself dead in Jammu and Kashmir camp | India News – Times of India

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SRINAGAR: An Army officer of the rank of lieutenant colonel shot himself dead with his service weapon at the Khonmoh depot on the outskirts of Srinagar on Wednesday.
Sources said a group of soldiers heard gunshots and ran inside to find Lt Col Sudeep Bhagat lying in a pool of blood. He was declared dead on arrival at a nearby hospital. It wasn’t immediately known why the officer took his own life.
Lt Col Bhagat’s death coincided with an SSB jawan attempting suicide by shooting himself with a rifle in Srinagar’s Bemina locality. He escaped with a minor injury as the bullet grazed the left side of his neck.
In Jammu’s Rajouri district, a sepoy was found dead with multiple bullet injuries in a camp of the Army’s Ace of Spades division. The deceased is suspected to have shot himself. “The body has been sent for post-mortem and other medico-legal formalities,” he said.

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