Seagull could be added to India’s platform panoply
Indian naval shipbuilder Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers (GRSE) signed an agreement with Israel’s Elbit Systems to produce Elbit’s Seagull USV vessel at the recently concluded Defexpo 2018 exhibition held near Chennai.
The signing of an MoU with Elbit to produce the Seagull as yet another ‘Make In India’ initiative was announced by GRSE’s head RAdm (ret) V K Saxena on 12 April. GRSE said that it is drawing on Elbit’s unmanned systems expertise to offer a force multiplier for naval operations with ‘lower risk and dramatically reduced procurement and operating costs’.
It is understood that GRSE is in preliminary
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