Hazira, Oct. 28 -- Larsen & Toubro (L&T) and BAE Systems on Wednesday commenced production of the BvS10 Sindhu articulated all-terrain vehicle for the Indian Army at Hazira in Surat, with the 18 vehicles ordered by the Army scheduled for deployment in Ladakh and the Kutch region.

The vehicles are designed to support high-altitude operations at elevations of up to 18,000 feet in Ladakh, where temperatures can fall to minus 55 degrees Celsius amid extreme winter and snow conditions. In Kutch, they will be used for troop patrolling across marshlands, desert areas and the Great Rann, where temperatures can reach 55 degrees Celsius.

Arun Ramchandani, Senior Vice-President and Head of L&T Precision Engineering, described the production launch...