CONGRATULATIONS TO HEAVY VEHICLES FACTORY AVADI

The indigenous Arjun Tanks were inducted formally in to the Armoured Regiment at a cermony at Jaisalmer, over 37 years after the project was commissioned by the government. The Lt.General,GOC-in-C of Southern command , inducted the tank. The cermony also marked the pasage of T 55 taanks from the inventory after 40 years of realiable sourse. He said that 45 Arjun tanks were inducted.The event also marked the 39th raising day of the regiment, in which over 1000 retired officers and jawans took part. The 75 Armoured Regiment is the only indian armoured regiment to be raised on foreign soil during the 1971 Indo-Pak war at Gadra road(now in PakistanP on 12th March 1972.