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101 Defence Items Under Import Embargo

IMR Reporter — Thu, 27 Aug 2020 10:48:44 +0000

The following Defence Items have been placed under Import Embargo

1. 120mm Fin Stabilised Armour Piercing Discarding Sabot (FSAPDS) Mark II Ammunition

2. 7.62×51 Sniper Rifle

3. Tracked Self Propelled (SP) Gun (155mm x 52 Cal)

4. Towed Artillery Gun (155mm x 52 Cal)

5. Short Range Surface to Air Missiles (Land variant)

6. Shipborne Cruise Missiles

7. Multi Barrel Rocket Launcher (MBRL) (Pinaka Variant)

8. Simulators Presenting Smart Ranges and Multi-Function Targets

9. Battalion Support Weapons Simulators

10. Container-based Simulators for Live Fire Training

11. Tailor-made Simulators for Counter Insurgency (CI)/Counter Terrorism (CT) based Training

12. Force-on-force Live Tactical Simulators / Infantry Weapon

13. Tank Simulators (driving, as well as crew gunnery)

14. 155mm/39 Cal Ultra-Light Howitzer

15. Successor of Flycatcher &Upgraded Super Fledermaus (USFM) / Air Defence Fire Control Radar (ADFCR)

16. Component Level Repair Facility for Tank T-90

17. Shipborne Close in Weapon System

18. Bullet Proof Jackets

19. Ballistic Helmets

20. Missile Destroyers

21. Multi-Purpose Vessel

22. Offshore Patrol Vessel

23. Next Generation Missile Vessels

24. Anti-Submarine Warfare Shallow Watercraft

25. Water Jet Fast Attack Craft

26. Ammunition Barges

27. 50ton Bollard – Pull Tugs

28. Survey Vessels

29. Floating Dock

30. Diving Support Vessels

31. Pollution Control Vessels

32. Anti-Submarine Rocket Launchers

33. Shipborne Medium Range Gun

34. Torpedo Tube Launcher for Light Weight Torpedoes

35. Magneto – Rheological Anti Vibration Mounts

36. All variants of Depth Charges

37. Shipborne Sonar System for Large Ships

38. Hull Mounted Submarine Sonar

39. Short Range Maritime Reconnaissance Aircraft

40. Anti-Submarine Rocket

41. Chaff Rockets

42. Chaff Rocket Launcher

43. Integrated Ship’s Bridge System

44. Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) MK I A – Enhanced Indigenised Content

45. Light Combat Helicopters

46. General Purpose Pre-Fragmentation Bombs between 250-500 Kg

47. Radar Warning Receiver (RWR) for Transport Aircraft

48. Ground Based Mobile ELINT System

49. Transport Aircraft (Light)

50. GSAT-6 Satellite Terminals

51. Aerial Delivery Systems for Transport Aircraft

52. Digital Tropo Scatter/LOS Communication System

53. Low Level Transportable Radar

54. High Power Radar (HPR)

55. CBRN Detection & Monitoring System

56. CBRN Decontamination & Protection System

57. Parachute Tactical Assault (PTA)- G2

58. Dragunov Upgrade System

59. PKMG Upgrade System

60. Simulators for A Vehicles / B Vehicles

61. Simulators for Towed and Self-Propelled Guns of Air Defence

62. Simulators for Correction of Fire by Observers

63. Military trucks of 4×4 and above variants: 12×12, 10×10, 8×8, 6×6

64. Fixed Wing Mini UAVs

65. 500 Ton Self Propelled Water Barges

66. Software Defined Radio (TAC) for IN

67. Next Generation Maritime Mobile Coastal Battery (Long Range)

68. Advance Landing Ground Communication Terminals (ALGCTs)for AGLs

69. Field Artillery Tractor (FAT) 6X6 for Medium Guns

70. Wheeled Armoured Fighting Vehicle (AFV)

71. Light Machine Gun

72. 125 mm Fin Stabilised Armour Piercing Discarding Sabot (FSAPDS)New Generation Ammunition

73. Assault Rifle 7.62 x 39mm

74. 30 mm Ammunition for Infantry Fighting Systems

75. Mine Fragmentation

76. Mine Anti-tank

77. Mine Anti-Personnel Blast

78. Multipurpose Grenade

79. Inertial Navigation System for Ship Application

80. Conventional Submarines

81. 40mm UBGL (Under Barrel Grenade Launcher)

82. Lightweight Rocket Launcher

83. 155 mm Artillery Ammunition

84. EW Systems

85. Material Handling Crane 2.5 to 7.5 Tons (Vehicle Mounted)

86. GRAD BM Rocket

87. 30MM HEI/HET

88. ASTRA-MK I Beyond Visual Range Air to Air Missile (BVR AAM)

89. EW Suit for MI-17 V5

90. Communication Satellite GSAT-7C

91. Satellite GSAT 7R

92. Basic Trainer Aircraft (BTA)

93. Expendable Aerial Targets

94. Small Jet Engines with 120kgf thrust

95. Light Low-Level Terrain Radar (LLLWR)

96. Close in Weapon System (Land based)

97. 23 mm ZU Ammunitions

98. 30mm VOG 17

99. Electronic Fuses for Artillery Ammunitions

100. Bi- Modular Charge System (BMCS)

101. Long Range – Land Attack Cruise Missile

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Import Embargo as Part of Atmanirbhar Initiative

IMR Reporter — Thu, 27 Aug 2020 10:43:21 +0000

The list was prepared by MoD after several rounds of consultations with all stakeholders, including Army, Air Force, Navy, Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO), Defence Public Sector Undertakings (DPSUs), Ordnance Factory Board (OFB) and private industry to assess current and future capabilities of the Indian industry for manufacturing various ammunition/ weapons/platforms/equipment within India. The list was released on 9 August.

Almost 260 schemes of such items were contracted by the three Services at an approximate cost of Rs 3.5 lakh crore between April 2015 and August 2020. With latest embargo on import of 101 items, it is estimated that contracts worth almost Rs 4 lakh crore will be placed upon the domestic industry within the next five to seven years. Of these, items worth almost Rs 1.3 lakh crore each are anticipated for the Army and the Air Force while items worth almost Rs 1.4 lakh crore are anticipated by the Navy over the same period.

The list of 101 embargoed items comprises of not just simple parts but also some high technology weapon systems like artillery guns, assault rifles, corvettes, sonar systems, transport aircrafts, light combat helicopters (LCHs), radars and many other items to fulfil the needs of our Defence Services. The list also includes, wheeled armoured fighting vehicles (AFVs) with indicative import embargo date of December 2021, of which the Army is expected to contract almost 200 at an approximate cost of over Rs 5,000 crore.

Similarly, the Navy is likely to place demands for submarines with indicative import embargo date of December 2021, of which it expects to contract about six at an approximate cost of almost Rs 42,000 crore.

For the Air Force, it is decided to enlist the light combat aircraft LCA MK 1A with an indicative embargo date of December 2020. Of these, 123 are anticipated at an approximate cost of over Rs 85,000 crore. Hence, there are highly complex platforms that are included in the list of 101 items, of which details of three examples are given above.

The embargo on imports is planned to be progressively implemented between 2020 to 2024. The aim behind promulgation of the list is to apprise the Indian defence industry about the anticipated requirements of the Armed Forces so that they are better prepared to realise the goal of indigenisation. The MoD has adopted many progressive measures to encourage and facilitate ‘Ease of Doing Business’ by the defence production entities. All necessary steps would be taken to ensure that timelines for production of equipment as per the Negative Import List are met, which will include a co-ordinated mechanism for hand holding of the industry by the Defence Services.

More such equipment for import embargo would be identified progressively by the DMA in consultation with all stakeholders.

A due note of this will also be made in the Defence Acquisition Procedure (DAP) to ensure that no item in the negative list is processed for import in the future.

In another relevant step, the MoD has bifurcated the capital procurement budget for 2020-21 between domestic and foreign capital procurement routes. A separate budget head has been created with an outlay of nearly Rs 52,000 crore for domestic capital procurement in the current financial year.

Clarification

Consequent to release of the negative list of items for import by the MoD on 9 August 2020, certain queries were raised by industry with respect to inclusion of some of the items like the Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Mark 1A, Pinaka Rocket System and Akash missile system, which are manufactured in India. It was highlighted that such systems, etc, were developed with qualitative requirements framed by the defence forces. Such systems were also available in the international market.

Nomenclature of such weapon systems have been included in the negative list of imports to ensure that the Defence Services did not go in for procurement of similar systems ex-import. It was also highlighted that for a product to be considered as an indigenous system, the percentage of indigenous content has to meet minimum laid down specifications. Hence, manufacturers were also required to ensure indigenisation and decrease import content to the permissible limits.

Comments

This is a big step towards self-reliance in defence. It also offers a great opportunity to the Indian defence industry to rise to the occasion to manufacture the items in the negative list by using their own design and development capabilities or adopting the technologies designed and developed by Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) to meet the requirements of the Armed Forces in the coming years.

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