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In a bid to boost defence exports the Indian ordnance factories have set a target of 20 million, after achieving exports worth 13 million in the last financial year.
Speaking after the conclusion of the two-day General Manager8217;s Conference of the Ordnance Factories, Deepak Dutta, director general and chairman of the Board said that they had earmarked several products to hike exports to 8216;8216;friendly countries8217;8217;. Presently Indian pistols, rifles, mortars and ammunition was finding its way into the international arms market, but was too little to make a major dent on the international scene.
According to Dutta a road map for modernising the factories had also been prepared. An in-house research and development team had also been put together by the Ordnance Factory Board OFB as a part of the modernisation process. 8216;8216;We have upgraded the L/70 air defence gun and sent it for user trials by the services,8217;8217; Dutta said. It is also indigenously upgrading the 130 mm and 105 mm artillery guns and mine-protecting vehicles.
