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Likewise, L&T Defence units in Coimbatore were also supplying the airframe for the BrahMos missiles and would supply more components. more-inL&T Defence will soon start manufacturing rocket engines in Coimbatore to power launch vehicles for the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), Jayant Patil, member, L&T Board, said here on Saturday. A release from L&T Defence said that integrated airframe and system hardware was a critical system of the Akash missile comprising sustainer and booster motors and 112 sub assemblies, powering the missile with multi-directional and multi-target area defence. The plant that would be operational by the end of the current financial year would manufacture the rocket engines to cater to the increasing demand from the ISRO which plans a series of launches in the near future, said Mr.
Patil, who is also the whole-time director, L&T Defence. The company chose Coimbatore because there was a good ecosystem of suppliers of components, he noted..