Tata Motors has signed a strategic agreement with Bharat Forge Ltd and General Dynamics Land Systems (GDLS) of the USA, for the Indian Ministry of Defence’s prestigious Future Infantry Combat Vehicle (FICV) program. Bharat Forge comes on board as a partner, and GDLS is claimed to bring in it’s experience in combat vehicle platforms. Tata Motors is hopeful of leveraging its experiences in design, development and integration of mobility platforms. At the other end, Bharat Forge will leverage its competence with fighting platforms and manufacturing strengths. General Dynamic’s experience as System of Systems Integrator (SOSI) is expected to complement Tata Motors on the program. FICV is a high mobility armoured battle vehicle for infantry. The FICV will replace the Indian army’s fleet of 2610 Russian-designed BMP (Sarath BMP-II) series armed vehicles, in operation since 1980.