NEW DELHI: The Indian Army has issued a tender to procure AK-630 air defence guns from the state-owned Advanced Weapon and Equipment India Ltd (AWEIL) under Mission Sudarshan Chakra, an ambitious national security initiative announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his Independence Day address. “Indian Army Air Defence has floated an RFP (Request for Proposal) for the procurement of six AK-630 Air Defence Gun Systems with AWEIL,” defence officials told ANI. “The system sought is a 30mm multi-barrel mobile air defence gun system with a high rate of fire.” Also Read: How India used S-400 Sudarshan Chakra defence system to take down Pakistani drones, missiles According to the officials, the weapon would be "utilised to thwart the threat from URAM (Unmanned aerial vehic

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