Saab has immediately marked the beginning of the development of its new Carl-Gustaf^® manufacturing facility in India with a floor breaking ceremony. The manufacturing facility can be positioned within the state of Haryana.

After receiving approval of 100% international direct funding, Saab has established a brand new firm, Saab FFVO India Pvt Ltd, which is able to absolutely personal the brand new manufacturing facility and produce the Carl-Gustaf M4 weapon.

“I am proud to start constructing our first facility outside Sweden for Carl-Gustaf, a product that has a long history with the Indian Armed Forces. We look forward to starting production of our excellent product, now engineered and made in India”, says Görgen Johansson, Senior Vice President and Head of Saab’s enterprise space Dynamics.

“Today is an important milestone for Sweden and India. Saab’s factory will be the first foreign fully-owned defence production facility in India. It is a testament to the strong bilateral relationship between our countries,” says Håkan Jevrell, State Secretary for Foreign Trade, Sweden. 

The facility is being constructed within the state of Haryana on the MET City at Jhajjar. The state has a powerful industrial base of fine potential companions and expert workers.

Saab will accomplice with Indian suppliers and can absolutely meet the necessities of “Make in India” for the techniques manufactured within the facility. At the brand new manufacturing facility, Saab will deploy complicated applied sciences together with the most recent sighting expertise and superior carbon fibre winding to fabricate Carl-Gustaf M4 for the Indian armed forces, and parts which can be included in different customers’ techniques. 

The Carl-Gustaf system has been in service with the Indian Army since 1976 and is established as the principle shoulder launched weapon within the Indian Armed Forces.

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