The Rs 1,056 crore agreement to make reinforced vehicles was granted to Mahindra Defense Systems.

The Ministry of Defense (MoD) has granted a significant agreement to Mahindra Defense Systems (MDS), an entirely possessed auxiliary of Mahindra and Mahindra, for the assembling of Armored Tactical Vehicles (explicitly Light Strike Vehicle - LSV) for the Indian Army for their recce and weapon transporter necessities. 

  • The MDS LSV is the lone vehicle that passed all preliminaries 
  • Being natively built up the MDS LSV will get total lifecycle support 
  • The presentation of the LSVs is set to be finished by 2025 

Why the Ministry of Defense picked Mahindra? 

Serious offers from Indian organizations had been welcomed by the MoD through open delicate wherein the vehicles were gotten through tiring preliminaries under various working conditions. 

The MDS LSV has gone through thorough and expound preliminary methodology completed by the Indian Army in various territories including high height, deserts, and fields. MDS LSV is the solitary vehicle which passed all the Field, Ballistics, and Technical preliminaries. 

The current agreement is worth Rs 1,056 crore. The acceptance of vehicles is intended to be finished in four years (by 2025) starting in 2021.


MDS has natively planned and built up the LSV to the demanding norms of the Indian Army. The particular plan of this vehicle makes it future proof. Additionally, as OEM of the vehicle, MDS has the essential IP and capacities on the whole perspectives from improvement of the LSV Variants to finish lifecycle support. 

SP Shukla, Chairman, Mahindra Defense Systems, said, "This agreement genuinely implies accomplishment of the Atmanirbhar Bharat activity. It is the principal significant agreement for the high level defensively covered strategic vehicles that are planned and created by private area in India with protected innovation rights inside the country. This agreement makes ready for huge scope reception of Indian stages with native capacities." 

One form of the MDS LSV is as of now in help with the Indian Battalion sent in UN Peacekeeping mission in Africa . Other Friendly  nations have likewise looked for subtleties of this vehicle for their activities showing the fare capability of this heavily clad vehicle created and made in India.