KOLKATA: Steel Authority of India’s (SAIL) Alloys Steels Plant in Durgapur supplied the special steel that was used to make the country’s first indigenously designed artillery gun ‘Dhanush’ which was inducted in to the Army on April 8, 2019. ASP Durgapur supplied the special alloys steel for the gun developed by the Gun Factory in Jabalpur where it was handed over to the Indian Army.
SAIL, which is in its 60th year of production, has been meeting the requirement of special quality steel for the country’s defence forces. SAIL steel has been used in country’s various defence programs including INS Vikrant, INS Kiltan, INS Kamorta, MBT Arjun etc, an official statement said. Incidentally, SAIL’s Rourkela Steel Plant has also been supplying special grade steel to Jabalpur’s Gun Factory to meet its various technical requirements related to development and repair.
Commenting on the development, SAIL chairman, Anil Kumar Chaudhary said, “SAIL is ready to meet and supply special grade steels for technical requirement of country’s defence programs.”
Source: ET
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