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08 Dec

Embraer jet for Indian airborne radar flight tested

New Delhi : The first fully-modified aircraft for India s indigenously developed Airborne Early Warning and Control System (AEW&CS) has taken to the skies for its maiden flight from the Embraer facilities at Sao Jose dos Campos in Brazil, Indian officials said Wednesday. With about 1,000 mission system components provided by Centre for Airborne Systems (CABS) of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), the first flight test Tuesday was successful, according to DRDO officials here. These include the critical item such as the active electronic scanning antenna (AESA) radar developed by DRDO and certified from Agencia Nacional de Aviacao Civil…

01 Dec

Yet another successful test of Agni-1 n-capable missile

New Delhi: India''s strategic missile Agni-1 of 700 k.m. range was successfully tested on Thursday. The user trial was carried out at 09.30 hrs on from Wheeler Islands in Odisha state by an army team. The missile indegenously developed by DRDO is already in the arsenal of Indian Armed Forces. It was launched from Road Mobile Launcher System and reached the target point in the Bay of Bengal. DRDO spokeperson Ravi Gupta told BDK here, ''The missile was tracked by Radar, Telemetry stations located along the coastline. Two Naval Ships located near the target point tracked the missile in the terminal…

16 Nov

India not in arms race: DRDO chief

New Delhi : Discounting talk of an arms race in the neighbourhood after its successful test of the Agni-IV strategic nuclear-capable missile, India s defence research chief V.K. Saraswat made it clear Wednesday that New Delhi was not playing a game and was not in a race , as its missile programme was for defensive purposes. Saraswat, the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) director general, told reporters here that India was not looking at what its neighbours missile stock was and was building its missile programme on the basis of what the nation needs to defend itself. We are not…

15 Nov

India tests Agni-IV missile with high accuracy

Bhubaneswar/New Delhi : India Tuesday succeeded with a very high level of accuracy in its first test of a new-generation Agni-IV strategic nuclear-capable missile with a 3,500-km range from a defence base in Odisha, an official said. The missile, which has the capability to hit targets over 3,000 km away, was tested from a facility off the state s coast in the presence of senior defence officials, defence ministry spokesperson Sitanshu Kar told IANS. The test was successful, he added. The Agni-IV is a modified version of the Agni-II strategic missile and was originally called Agni-II Prime. The successful launch of…

12 Oct

Indigenous Rustom UAV completes successful fifth flight

New Delhi : India s indigenously designed and developed Rustom-I unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) Friday completed its fifth successful flight, an official said here. Rustom, a medium altitude long endurance (MALE) UAV, has the capability to attain maximum speeds of 150 knots, fly at 22,000 feet altitude, and an endurance of about 15 hours. The UAV has an operating range of 250 km, when fully developed. The Indian Army has shown keen interest in the programme. Indigenously designed and developed Rustom-1 made its fifth successful flight this morning while flying at an altitude of 2,300 feet above ground level and at…

11 Oct

Defence tech to be showcased products at India-Africa meet

New Delhi : India''s premier defence research agency will exhibit 35 technologies from its laboratories at the two-day India-Africa business meet in Hyderabad from Wednesday. The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) will present these technologies from the food, life sciences and environment-related sectors, apart from high-end engineering applications for ensuring food security, fighting pandemics, handling climate change, disaster management, and counter-terrorism. DRDO will present the technologies to African business houses and offer to assist them in promoting and commercialising the products in the civilian market in their respective nations. The business summit would bring together ministers, chief executive officers, managing…

01 Oct

India successfully tests n-capable Agni II

Bhubaneswar: India Friday successfully test-fired the nuclear capable Agni-II strategic ballistic missile from a defence base in Orissa. This is the third Indian missle test this week, a hattrick of sorts, after the successful lauches of Shourya and Prithvi-II missiles on Sep 24 and 26 respectively. The surface-to-surface missile, with a range of over 2,000 km, was test fired in Bhadrak district, said S.P. Dash, director of the Integrated Test Range at Wheeler's Island, about 200 km from here. "It was a perfect launch," Dash told IANS. He added that the missile was tested at about 9.30 a.m. The launch of…

17 Sep

India and U.K. to pursue collaborative Defence R&D

New Delhi: India and United Kingdom entered into a letter of arrangement to pursue collaborative Defence R&D Cooperation with UK’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) and facilitate making best use of respective research and technology development capability through joint projects, collaborative research and industry and academia participation. A DRDO spokesperson told here that the LOA was signed in London by VK Saraswat, Scientific Adviser to the Defence Minister and Secretary Defence R&D and Director General Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), India and Professor Mark Welland, Chief Scientific Adviser (CSA), Ministry of Defence, United Kingdom. Saraswat is currently on a…

17 Sep

DR&DE (E) former director Joshi felicitated

Madhukar R Joshi, former Director of Research and Development Establishment (Engineers) (R&DE-E), a premier DRDO establishment was felicitated by Dr S Guruprasad, the present Director of theestablishment, in the presence of Lt Gen (Retd) Noble Thamburajduring the one day symposium on Emergency Bridging held as a part of the Golden Jubilee celebrations at R&DE(E) today. Lt Gen (Retd.) Noble Thamburaj, PVSM, SM, was the chief guest in the function. Joshi headed the establishment as Director from 1989 till his retirement in 1999, after contributing for more than thirty-six years in the organisation. An expert in military bridging, he has contributed…

17 Sep

DRDO Lab. finds cure for Leucoderma

New Delhi: A defence laboratory of the DRDO has developed a herbal medicine Lukeskin to cure Leucoderma/ Vitiligo, a skin colour disfiguring ailment. Leucoderma or vitiligo is an idiopathic acquired disorder of skin. Patients with vitiligo develop white spots in the skin with varying size and location. The product will be a boon for the patients of Leucoderma and is backed by extensive R&D work by the scientists of Defence Institute of Bio-Energy Research (DIBER) (formerly Defence Agricultural Research Laboratory), Haldwani. The developed product was launched by the distinguished defence scientist & Chief Controller, Research & Development (Life Science & International…