Indian Army inducts Armoured Engineer Reconnaissance Vehicle
The Hindu
The vehicle was indigenously designed and developed by DRDO, and built by BEL
The first batch of next-generation Armoured Engineer Reconnaissance Vehicles (AERV), indigenously designed and developed by DRDO, and manufactured by the Pune unit of Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL), was formally inducted into the Indian Army by Chief of Army Staff Gen. Manoj Mukund Naravane.
AERV is manufactured by BEL at Pune with more than 90% indigenous content. It is a versatile BMP-IIK amphibious Infantry Combat Vehicle (ICV) fitted with instruments for water reconnaissance, land reconnaissance, navigation and data backup.
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