Indian Army and Indian Air Force are the new customers of the AT4, from SAAB of Sweden. The Indian forces are already using SAAB’s Carl-Gustaf system. The single shot weapon has been selected by the Indian Armed Forces through a competitive programme.
The Swedish company SAAB is giving the Indian Forces AT4CS AST. This can be fired from confined spaces like bunkers, from inside buildings, and other urban environments.
AT4CS AST offers a tandem warhead with a breach or blast mode. This mode, according to an official statement issued by the company, is optimised to destroy structures which can create a point of access into them, and defeat enemies within buildings.
The news of the signing of the contract was shared by the Swedish company on its website on Thursday (Jan 20, 2022). The contract was inked by FFV Ordnance AB, the arm which is responsible for the company’s Ground Combat offer in India.
This is a preloaded weapon system. It is fully disposable.
This is in the range of light weight, man-portable.
It comes with a unique shaped-charge warhead and it is specially developed. And, it delivers outstanding behind-armour effect inside the target.
It has an effective range of 20-300 metres and weighs less than 8 Kg.
