Defense Industry: Morocco set to produce India’s Armored Combat Vehicle

Under a strategic partnership agreement negotiated between Morocco’s National Defense Administration and the subsidiary of the Indian giant TATA group, a plant will be set up in Morocco to produce armored combat vehicle WhAP 8×8 for the Moroccan army. Tata Advanced Systems’ flagship product, WhAP 8×8 (Wheeled Armored Platform) is India’s first infantry combat vehicle, designed for optimized survivability, all-terrain performance and increased lethality. It comes at a time when the Moroccan Parliament had passed laws allowing the setting up of joint ventures in the defense industry as the country aspires to reduce arms imports.