Tata Advanced Systems Ltd’s state-of-the-art Wheeled Armoured Platform 8x8 (WhAP 8x8) manufacturing facility was inaugurated in Casablanca region of Morocco on Tuesday, with Defence Minister Rajnath Singh stating that it illustrates how “along with ‘Make in India,’ we are also pursuing ‘Make with Friends.’”

The plant is the largest defence production facility in the Kingdom and represents the first such venture by an Indian private company on the African continent.

The inauguration was jointly conducted by India’s Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Abdeltif Loudyi, Minister Delegate to the Head of Government in charge of National Defence Administration, Kingdom of Morocco. Deliveries of the WhAP 8x8 to the Royal Moroccan Armed Forces are scheduled to begin next month.

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