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ER Sheikh takes over as first Director General of the Directorate of Ordnance
ER Sheikh has taken over as the first Director-General of the Directorate of Ordnance (Coordination and Services) on 30 September 2021, the newly created entity to replace the Ordnance Factory Board (OFB). According to the Ministry of Defence, it is the successor organization of the Directorate of Ordnance OFB. The Government of India had dissolved OFB on October 01, 2021 and transferred all its employees including its assets and management to seven newly-established Defense Public Sector Undertakings (DPSUs). ER Sheikh is an Indian officer of the Ordnance Factory Service (IOFS) of the year 1984-batch. Sheikh has worked for the establishment
Defense Production Department dedicate 220 years old ordnance factories to nation by making seven companies
Advertisement released by the ‘Department of Defense Production’ under the Ministry of Defense has created a ruckus. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s photo is printed on this advertisement. It is written in it that on October 1, seven new defense companies will be dedicated to the nation. C. Sreekumar, general secretary of All India Defense Employees Federation ‘AIEDF’, said, this is a sheer hoax. These seven companies are not new, but 41 ordnance factories ranging from 120 years to 220 years old. The Defense Production Department has forgotten that 76,000 workers are still working in these factories. In this regard, by
Small Arms Factory (SAF) will now get order for Police & Army Arms Supply
To give a befitting reply to the enemies, the strength of the country’s army will now increase the military weapons to be built in the Small Arms Factory (SAF). The Ordnance Factory Board has indicated that large orders of Joint Venture Protective Carbine (JVPC), Light Machine Gun (LMG) and CQB Carbine are to be received soon from Army and Police. It will then be supplied from SAF. The trial of Joint Venture Protective Carbine has been successful two months ago. During the test, more than 12 engineers from the Pune-based Air Armament Research and Development Unit visited the SAF. On
Ordnance Factory Board To Make Anti-Material Sniper Rifle For Indian Army
Ordnance Factory Board (OFB) is soon to offer its indigenously made anti-material sniper rifle(AMR) to the Indian Army for preliminaries in the wake of having consolidated changes according to the last’s necessity. The huge type AMR, named ‘Vidwanshak’ is a 100 per cent indigenous weapon by OFB, dispatched during the ‘Atmanirbhar Week’. Sources in the Kolkata based protection maker OFB affirmed to The Statesman that a few requests were gotten for the rifle from state police associations and Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF). The BSF and the CRPF are the current clients of the weapon. “Vidwanshak is a multi-type sharpshooter
Ordnance Factory Board Recieves Order For US Ammunition Supply
India’s state-run Ordnance Factory Board (OFB) has got an order from the US to supply ammunition. The OFB, one of the country’s oldest defence establishments, has received an export order for 5.56X45 mm NATO M193 Ball bullets from the US. “The ammunition will be manufactured at Ordnance Factory Varangaon in Maharashtra and will be supplied in the current fiscal year,” OFB Deputy Director General Gagan Chaturvedi told IANS. He also said that the ordnance factories have been exporting ammunition to foreign nations and have been fulfilling the commitments within the given time. India had inherited 18 ordnance factories established by
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