NEW DELHI: The Defence Acquisition Council chaired by Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Wednesday cleared capital procurements worth over Rs 2,000 crore, including ‘multi-mode’ hand grenades and modernisation of naval aircraft yards at India’s western seaboard.
Officials said the capital procurements for the defence services amount to about Rs 2,355 crore. A major part of this includes grenades for the army.
“Approval was accorded for procurement of the Defence Research and Development Organisation developed multi-mode hand grenades from the private industry,” said an official. Sources said that there are two types of multi-mode grenades- lethal and nonlethal.
The lethal one is a fragmentation grenade that is meant to kill by the shrapnel. The non-lethal one acts as a stun grenade, which is used for room intervention operations and reduces casualties in densely populated areas while taking down terrorists.
“Currently, army units in counter-terrorism roles have fragmentation grenades and require stun grenades,” said the official
Source: ET
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