'Want to manufacture BrahMos so that...': Rajnath Singh's veiled warning to neighbouring countries
Rajnath Singh said that India is manufacturing the BrahMos missile and other weapons not to attack any country but to defend its people against any nation with hostile intentions.
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Lucknow, Dec 27: "India wants to manufacture BrahMos missiles so that no other country has the audacity to cast an evil eye on it", defence minister Rajnath Singh said. Stressing the need for maintaining nuclear deterrents, Singh said India is manufacturing the BrahMos missile and other weapons not to attack any country but to defend its people against “any nation with hostile intentions.”
"It has never been the character of India to attack any other country or grab even an inch of land of any country," Singh said. "We want to manufacture BrahMos on Indian soil so that no country has the audacity to cast an evil eye on India." Referring to Pakistan, Rajnath Singh said he doesn’t why the intentions of a neighbouring country that got separated from India sometime back, are always bad vis-a-vis India. It committed acts of terrorism in Uri and Pulwama, Singh added.
"And then our prime minister took a decision, and we went to the soil of that country and destroyed terrorist hideouts, and when there was a need for airstrikes, we did that successfully. We gave the message that if somebody dares to cast an evil eye on us, then not just on this side of the border, but we can go to the other side and hit them. This is India's strength," he said.
The minister also said, the state-of-the-art facilities will prove to be an important milestone in the defence sector and the establishment of these units will generate revenue; provide employment opportunities to the youth and help in achieving ‘Aatmanirbhar Bharat’ envisioned by PM Narendra Modi. He said that the message of Make in India, Make for India and Make for World has been sent out globally.
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The defence minister was in Lucknow to lay the foundation stone of the Defence Technologies and Test Centre and the BrahMos Manufacturing Centre. He termed BRAHMOS as the world's best and fastest precision-guided weapon which has strengthened India's credible deterrence in the 21st century.
Further he added that BRAHMOS has empowered the Armed Forces and raised India's military stature at the international level. On BRAHMOS-NG, he said, the more advanced missile system, which has proven its firepower in land, water and air will greatly strengthen the modern combat capability of the Indian Army in the coming years. He appreciated that the establishment of UP DIC has opened up new avenues for all-round technological progress of the state, besides providing employment opportunities for the youth of the region.
“At the time of its inauguration, we had estimated an investment of Rs 3,732 crore. Investment of more than Rs 1,400 crore has already been received and the process is progressing rapidly,” he informed. The BrahMos Manufacturing Centre is a modern, state-of-art facility in the Lucknow node of Uttar Pradesh Defence Industrial Corridor covering over 200 acres.
The centre will consist of six subcentres: deep-tech innovation & startup incubation centre; design & simulation centre; testing & evaluation centre; centre for industry 4.0/digital manufacturing; skill development centre; and business development centre. According to the ministry, the manufacturing centre is expected to get ready over the next two to three years and manufacture 80-100 BrahMos-NG missiles per year.