Union Minister of State (MoS) for Defence Ajay Bhatt visited the DRDO's Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Missile Complex in Hyderabad on Sunday and reviewed the ongoing missile technologies and related programmes at the Research Centre Imarat (RCI).
The development trials of the light tank Zorawar have already started and the DRDO is expected to hand it over to the Indian Army for further testing by April this year.
The test was conducted at 10:30 AM from the Integrated Test Range, Chandipur, off the coast of Odisha, against a high-speed unmanned aerial target at very low altitude.
The Defence Minister would be accompanied by a high-level Ministry of Defence delegation, comprising senior officials from DRDO, Service Headquarters, the Department of Defence, and the Department of Defence Production.
The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has successfully demonstrated the flight trial of Autonomous Flying Wing Technology Demonstrator, an indigenous high-speed flying wing UAV from the Aeronautical Test Range (ATR), in Karnataka's Chitradurga.
In a major boost for the Indian Army, the Defence Ministry has approved a Rs 2,800 crore proposal for buying around 6,400 rockets for Pinaka multi-barrel rocket launcher systems.
A bail application filed by former DRDO director Pradeep Kurulkar in connection with an espionage case was rejected by a special court in Pune on Thursday.
"I would like to keep my thoughts on why quality is important in defence-related equipment. You all must have heard the phrase, 'There is no free lunch'. For everything, we have to pay a price...Similarly, for quality improvement, a free lunch is not possible," Defence Minister Rajnath Si
The Indian Air Force on Sunday flew in 'critical DRDO equipment' in an effort to accelerate the rescue of 41 workers, who are trapped inside the collapsed portion of the under-construction Silkyara tunnel in Uttarkashi for over two weeks now, the IAF informed through an official release.<
As the rescuers race against time to evacuate the 41 trapped labourers into an under-construction tunnel in Uttarakhand's Uttarkashi, a team of DRDO robotics has also reached their location to be of help.