Maintaining their track record of 'ahead of time' deliveries of the 'K9 Vajra-T' 155mm/52 calibre tracked, self-propelled howitzer guns programme, the company had its 51st(out of a total of 100) such system 'flagged off' by RM MrRajnath Singh at their factory in Hazira (Gujarat) on 16 January 2020. As Mr AM Naik, Group Chairman L&T said "Our Defence team has once again demonstrated L&T's engineering and execution prowess in building this most advanced weapon system to the exacting levels of quality while ensuring on time delivery. The Hazira Manufacturing Complex has set various international technology and manufacturing benchmarks and the K9 Vajra is certainly one of them".
L&T Defence is currently executing the programme - the largest contract awarded to an Indian private company by the Ministry of Defence, through global competitive bidding. L&T partnered South Korea's largest defence company Hanwha to adapt the well proven K9 Thunder to realise the Vajra variant and enable indigenous manufacturing by training a team of engineers and integration specialists at Hanwha facilities.