President Pratibha Patil said here on Tuesday that the time frame required for development of technology, production and subsequent induction of weapon systems into the armed forces needed to be compacted.
“DRDO (Defence Research & Development Organisation) has to carry this burden and I am confident that it has the capability to do so,” the President said during a visit to its missile complex on New Year’s Day which marks the beginning of DRDO’s Golden Jubilee year.
Braving turbulent winds and inclement weather, an Indian Air Force helicopter has spotted an Indo-Tibetan Border Police patrol which went missing near the Chinese border in a blizzard and rescued an officer.
An Advanced Light Helicopter flown by Squadron Leaders K Grime and P Shukla and Sergeant T Rakesh took off from their Sarsawa base on getting an SOS about an ITBP Border Patrol going missing on January 4.
Akash, an indigenously developed medium-range surface-to-air missile system, has successfully completed test trials and is all set for induction into the defence forces, a top scientist of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) said today. "We expect the clearance from Defence Acquisition Council in a couple of months. Once we get the go-ahead, the production will commence and the first set of missile systems will be delivered in three years time," Chief Controller, R&D, DRDO, Prahlada told reporters here.
India will test indigenously built Agni III+ ballistic missile with a strike range of more than 5000 km in 2009.
The long-range missile is currently in the design stage, V K Saraswat, Chief Controller (R&D) of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) said here on Monday.
"We are looking for trial in early 2009," he told reporters on the sidelines of the 95th Indian Science Congress here.
Iran is being accused of taunting the US Navy after five Revolutionary Guard boats harassed American vessels in international waters.
The boats apparently came within 200 metres of the US ships off the Iranian coast on Saturday - the captain of one vessel just seconds away from ordering sailors to open fire.
After demonstrating capabilities in missile defence, India aims at developing long-range, high speed interceptors that can strike down missiles fired from deep within the enemy territory.
"We are now going to build AD-1 and AD-2 -- high speed interceptors for engaging 5000 km class targets," V K Saraswat, Project Director, Air Defence wing in the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) told reporters here.
In a major development, the Centre on Saturday gave clearance for induction of Akash, the surface-to-air missile, into the Indian Armed Forces. The 25-km range missile finally got the Governments nod after a series of trials since 1990.
Akash was first test-fired from the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur-on-sea, about 15 km from Balasore.
A release from the Defence Ministry said a series of user trials of the missile during
Ways to explore possibilities of furthering Indo-Israel defence cooperation are expected to figure in talks Indian Navy Chief Admiral Sureesh Mehta will have with top defence officials of the Jewish state during his four-day visit which began in Jerusalem on Sunday.
Mehta, who is the Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committee, will also be meeting Israel's Defence Minister Ehud Barak tomorrow, besides Israel Defence Forces (IDF) Chief of Staff, Gabi Ashkenazi, director general of the defence ministry, Pinchas Buchris, and heads of different branches of the IDF.
The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) says it wants to give 7,000 projects to talented scientists in universities, but only on the condition that the researchers work at least three years on them.
''We have about 7,000 scientists working for us, which is very less.... We are ready to give projects to similar number of researchers working in universities,'' DRDO Director Genneral M Natarajan told reporters after delivering a lecture on ''Emerging Trends in Defence Technology'' at the 95th Indian Science Congress here last evening.
The next time when the Indian Space Research Organisation attempts to launch a satellite for the country’s space research and development this year, a group of workers and managers in the Ranchi-based Heavy Engineering Corporation Limited will have reason to be proud. The reason, from next month, HEC will start despatching the four-metre high and 800 ton-plus heavy mobile launch pad, which the company is giving final touches to, exclusively for Isro.
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