DefExpo 2012: Land sector is central to BAE in India
BAE Systems has made land systems central to its strategy in India, according to a key company executive.
‘The major investment that we have made in Defence Land Systems India (DLSI) is a recognition that for us this has become a home market. The only way to gain access to a home market is to be onshore and to be national,’ Dean McCumiskey, chief executive officer of BAE Systems India, told Shephard at Defexpo India 2012.
DLSI is a joint venture formed in February 2010 between Mahindra & Mahindra, which owns 74%, and BAE Systems which owns a 26% share, the
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