New Delhi, Sept 23 (UNI) Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and his Moroccan counterpart Abdelatif Loudyi today jointly inaugurated Tata Advanced Systems Limited’s (TASL) state-of-the-art Defence manufacturing facility at Berrechid in Morocco.

Under a contract with the Government of Morocco, TASL will deliver Wheeled Armoured Platform (WhAP) 8×8 vehicles to the Royal Moroccan Army, with initial deliveries scheduled to begin next month. The facility became operational three months ahead of schedule and production has already commenced. It is Morocco’s largest Defence manufacturing facility, marking the first such plant by an Indian private company in Africa, a Defence Ministry statement said.

Spread over 20,000 square metres, the facility will undertake production of the indigenously develop

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