new delhi, May 29 -- State-run manufacturing major BEML Ltd is working on developing light-infantry vehicles for combat, reconnaissance and patrol as it expects procurement of launch platforms for missiles, including the Brahmos, to rise, said its chairman and managing director, Shantanu Roy, in an interview. The listed firm, formerly called Bharat Earth Movers Ltd, is expecting more orders for high-mobility vehicles to carry heavy equipment and armoured recovery vehicles in wake of the Indo-Pakistan conflict. The compay plans to roll out India's first long-distance, semi-high-speed trains (Vande Bharat) in a sleeper coach configuration and bullet trains by December 2026, added Roy. "High-speed train (bullet train) will be manufactured in Bengaluru. We are in the design stage. We would like to start manufacturing by September 2025. We will try that the first car body, the first shell, should be ready in the current fiscal year by February-March 2026. Actually, we have to build two trains, eight coaches each." The train would have a maximum speed of 280 kilometres per hour and may run on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad high-speed corridor at about 249 kmph alongside Japanese trains. He said the company would also consider future-ready combat vehicles (FRCVs) a few years down. "We are not in the weaponised vehicles segment, but we are preparing ourselves to get into that segment," he said....