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Wheeled Armoured Platform (WhAP) 8x8
DeliveredTata Advanced Systems announced the first handover of Morocco-built WhAP 8x8 vehicles to the Royal Moroccan Army on December 24, 2025.
On December 24, 2025, Tata Advanced Systems announced that the first lot of Morocco-built WhAP 8x8 vehicles had been handed to the Royal Moroccan Army. On November 15, DRDO transferred its wholly indigenous lightweight add-on composite-armour technology for WhAP to an Indian company, following the September opening of Tata's 20,000-square-metre plant at Berrechid with production already under way. In April 2024, DRDO offered the same modular armour technology to more industries, noting that limited sets providing STANAG 4569 Level II and III protection with the vehicle structure had already been integrated on WhAP and accepted by users. Hindustan Times reported that the CRPF began inducting WhAP in south Kashmir in August 2023, after the Indian Army inducted its first Tata Infantry Protected Mobility Vehicles in April 2022. The programme was publicly unveiled as the DRDO-co-developed Tata Kestrel at DefExpo 2014 and displayed under the WhAP name at DefExpo 2016. The modular amphibious 8x8 matters because it gives India a domestic wheeled armoured family for troop transport, reconnaissance and weapon-carrier roles while also establishing a significant armoured-vehicle export foothold.
Updated 24 Dec 2025
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Tata Advanced Systems handed over the first lot of Morocco-built WhAP 8x8 vehicles to the Royal Moroccan Army; the contract covers 150 vehicles to be delivered within three years.
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DRDO transferred its wholly indigenous lightweight add-on composite-armour technology for WhAP to NTB International at DMRL's 62nd Annual Day in Hyderabad; the armour provides all-round ballistic protection to international standards.
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India and Morocco inaugurated Tata Advanced Systems' 20,000-square-metre WhAP 8x8 plant at Berrechid; production had begun three months ahead of schedule and initial Royal Moroccan Army deliveries were scheduled for October.
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Tata Advanced Systems announced that it had signed a deal with Morocco for local WhAP production under a three-year project with progressively increasing local integration.
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DRDO invited expressions of interest for transfer of its indigenous modular STANAG 4569 Level II and III add-on composite-armour technology to more industries, noting that limited sets had already been integrated on WhAP and other platforms and accepted by users.
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Hindustan Times reported that the CRPF began inducting WhAP vehicles in south Kashmir, with the first 12-person 8x8 delivered to 110 Battalion in Pulwama district.
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DRDO displayed a WhAP armoured-personnel-carrier variant with composite armour, a 30 mm turret and blast protection at the Republic Day parade on Kartavya Path.
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Tata Advanced Systems announced the handover of the first batch of Infantry Protected Mobility Vehicles based on WhAP to the Indian Army.
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DRDO displayed the Kestrel-derived WhAP at DefExpo 2016 in Goa with a manned turret carrying a 30 mm cannon and 7.62 mm coaxial machine gun; specialist press described it as the platform's first public display under the WhAP name.
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Tata Motors unveiled the indigenous DRDO-co-developed Kestrel 8x8 amphibious armoured platform, the predecessor to WhAP, at DefExpo 2014 in New Delhi.
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