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India has signed a $73 million contract with a Polish firm to upgrade 250 of its T-72 MI main battle tanks, Jane's Defence Weekly said.
The deal will upgrade the fire control system of the T-72 tanks, the weekly said.
The first 15 systems are to be installed by technicians from Poland's ZM Bumar-Labedy under contract from Warsaw-based Przemyslowe Centrum Optyki, which manufactures the fire control system.
The Heavy Vehicles Factory in Avadi, Tamil Nadu, will fit the rest.
Deliveries will begin later this year and complete by 2004.
According to the report, there will be no transfer of technology to allow local production of the FCS.
The Polish SKO-IT Drawa-T thermal imaging fire control systems was selected following trials five years ago.
As the system was developed specifically for the Soviet-designed T-72 series, no modifications are required to the tanks.
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