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A nice dinky line-up of armoured buggies designed to snake into hotels, up stairs and into narrow alleys to take out holed up terrorists. That’s the stated profile of a new family of three-ton armoured vehicles developed and prototyped in response to an Indian Home Ministry requirement following the Pakistan Army-sponsored terror attack in Mumbai in November 2008. Pictures of the three vehicles — wheeled, tracked and low-noise electric — appear in the latest issue of DRDO’s newsletter. The Home Ministry had apparently called for an “agile, compact, highly manoeuvrable armoured envelope adequately protected to carry two to three persons in hostile environment especially in buildings, small gullies, constrained spaces of hide outs, etc.”
According to the sparse description DRDO provides with the pictures, the vehicles are built to carry three fully equipped combatants, with all-round protection from small arms fire and hand grenades. The new vehicles are clearly for police anti-terror squads and paramilitary use, though these vehicles could conceivably be deployed with the Army as well in Kashmir and the North East. The tracked ATV (third in the picture), the DRDO says, has also been tested ballistically by the paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force in Rajasthan and emerged grenade-proof from a trial at the DRDO’s own Terminal Ballistics Research Laboratory in Chandigarh.
The third ATV has camouflage paint but a bright blue light siren !! surely the 2 do not go together. Good insight into how much thought has (not) gone in.
This picture with the mixed track record of the DRDO is not inspiring
These small vehicles can considerably boost anti terror ops.Good initiative.
Well I have some Clear Photos of this Small Car Design by TATA
More Photos
http://sajeevpearlj.blogspot.com/2014/06/mini-bullet-proof-vehicles.html
Armored auto-rickshaw ? Might be just the thing to serve in Afghanistan as a taxi,
look prone to toppling over in the field
Shiv,I hope you are in Jodhpur for the real deal – Garuda 5 …. & not wasting your time covering dinky old armored Tuk-Tuks !
HaHaHaHaHa…
This is not the right place..but my heart aches at the lack of media coverage on Hockey world-cup…nothing on HindustanTimes.com, indiatimes.com….a rmote article on rediff.com…India lost both matches….but not even a single article…feeling sad
Garuda 5 we need update. Rafale jet discussion and how India can get benefit from selected Rafale jet we want to know.I si ti superior than all available paki or Chinese fighter jet?
Looks like an armoured gold cart to me. Maybe for Afghanistan.
DRDO's cruel joke, thankfully its still on paper
DRDO's cruel joke, thankfully its still on paper
DRDO's cruel joke, thankfully its still on paper
I think it can serve as a good chassis for a robotic armored vehicle. Perhaps DRDO could work on it.