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Army's infantry school in Mhow and the DRDO's Armament Research and Development Establishment in Pune have designed and developed the weapon. India's first indigenous 9 mm machine pistol has been jointly developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and the Indian Army, the Defence Ministry said on January 14. It said the Army's infantry school in Mhow and the DRDO's Armament Research and Development Establishment (ARDE) in Pune have designed and developed the weapon. The Ministry said the weapon has been developed in a record time of four months. "The machine pistol fires the in-service 9mm ammunition and sports an upper receiver made from aircraft grade aluminium and lower receiver from carbon fibre. 3 dimensional printing process has been used in designing and prototyping of various parts," the Ministry said in a statement. It said the weapon has huge potential in armed forces as personal weapon for various missions, including ...

T he microcopter has been developed by Lieutenant Colonel GYK Reddy. In Indian Army officer has indigenously developed a 'microcopter' which can be used by the Army to carry out surveillance inside a building or room in which terrorists are hiding. The trials of the microcomputer have been successfully carried out by a Para Special Forces battalion in Jammu and Kashmir and further improvements are being carried out on the micro drone. Indian Army has signed a contract for acquiring the Switch drone for surveillance along the borders. The vertical take off and landing drone has the capability to fly for two hours at a maximum altitude of 4,500 metres, according to Mohit Bansal, Idea Forge.  The firm had also developed the Netra drone a few years ago with DRDO. These were displayed at an event to showcase the internal innovation by the Indian army in Delhi.

Representative Image Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) chief Dr G Satheesh Reddy said on Wednesday that the ₹48,000 crore defence deal, cleared by the Union Cabinet on Wednesday, would pave way for developing various advanced aircraft systems in India. Clearing the biggest indigenous defence procurement deal, the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) approved the purchase of 83 LCA (light combat aircraft) Tejas Mk-1A jets which will take the tally of Tejas variants ordered to 123. Further terming the procurement deal as a ‘great day for the Indian aeronautical scientific community and industry’, Reddy told news agency ANI, “Getting approval for the order of the largest quantity of aircraft ever is a big achievement and is the culmination of hard work of three decades.” The DRDO chief also thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for giving a go ahead for this project. The deal will be signed in the coming days with the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL). It will be a majo...

Dubbed India's largest coastal defence exercise, it will involve all the 13 coastal states and Union Territories along with other maritime stakeholders. The Indian Navy will hold a pan-India coastal defence exercise starting Tuesday. The two-day mega defence exercise will kick start on Tuesday and cover the country's 7,516 km coastline and exclusive economic zone, as per officials. "The second edition of the biennial pan-India coastal defence exercise ‘Sea Vigil-21’ will be conducted on January 12-13," the Navy said. Dubbed India's largest coastal defence exercise, it will involve all the 13 coastal states and Union Territories along with other maritime stakeholders, they said. The scale and conceptual expanse of the exercise are "unprecedented" in terms of the geographical extent and the number of stakeholders involved, units participating and objectives to be met. "The exercise is a build-up towards the major theatre level exercise TROPEX which In...

The equipment will meet the important requirement of providing mobility to forces by speedy bridging of gaps during operations. The Indian Army has received three sets of 10-metre short span bridges developed and manufactured by the DRDO in collaboration with Larsen & Toubro Ltd (L&T), a defence official said on Wednesday. The bridges were formally handed over to the Army on Tuesday at L&T's facility in Talegaon here, the official said. The equipment will meet the important requirement of providing mobility to forces by speedy bridging of gaps during operations, he said. Report: Indian Army receives bridges developed by DRDO and L&T. https://t.co/0x8GeBQf6J — TIMES NOW (@TimesNow) December 31, 2020 "This accomplishment is a step towards weaning away our armed forces from foreign manufactured equipment with the bridges indigenously designed, developed and delivered as per schedule," the official said. "All stakeholders have put in concerted effo...

The DRDO along with the Indian Navy has conducted a successful maiden trial of the SAHAYAK-NG air-droppable container from an IL-38SD aircraft off the coast of Goa, an official statement said on Wednesday. SAHAYAK-NG is India's first indigenously designed and developed air droppable container, said the Defence Ministry's statement. It is aided by GPS, can carry a payload of up to 50 kg and can be dropped from a heavy aircraft, the ministry said. Two labs of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and private company Avantel were involved in its design and development. Ministry of Defence  Posted On: 30 DEC 2020 7:41PM by PIB Delhi "The trial was conducted by the Indian Navy to enhance its operational logistics capabilities and provide critical engineering stores to ships which are deployed more than 2000 km from the coast," the ministry mentioned.  It reduces the requirement of ships to come close to the coast to collect spares and stores, the ministr...

DAYS after successfully testing the Quantum Key Distribution technology, the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has achieved another milestone in quantum technology by successfully developing a Quantum Random Number Generator (QRNG), the Ministry of Defence said on Tuesday. Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO)  The DRDO Young Scientist Laboratory for Quantum Technologies (DYSL-QT), a DRDO facility based in Mumbai, has developed a QRNG which has the ability to detect random quantum events and convert those into a stream of binary digits. The facility has developed a fiber-optic branch path based QRNG. Branch path-based QRNG relies on the principle that if a single photon falls on a balanced beam splitter, it will take either of the beam-splitter output paths randomly. As the path chosen by the photon is random, the randomness is translated to a sequence of binary digits, also called bits. Random numbers have essential roles in various fields ranging...

The Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO)’s Pune-based facility has developed a carbine in collaboration with the Ordnance Factory Board (OFB). OFB's JVP Carbine (representative image) (Pic Via OFB Website) DRDO said that the carbine has completed its final phase of user trials by the Indian Army and is now ready for induction, According to the report, the weapon is expected to replace the ageing 9 mm carbine currently in use by the armed forces. The Joint Venture Protective Carbine (JVPC) is touted to significantly enhance and modernise the armoury of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), Border Security Force (BSF) and the state police forces. Designed as per the Indian Army's General Staff Qualitative Requirements (GSQRs), JVPC is a gas-operated automatic 5.56 x 30 mm calibre weapon of a semi-bullpup category because of the positioning of its action and trigger. The weapon is jointly developed by the Armament Research and Development Establishment (ARDE), a...

Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) –DIBER has invited applications for the Junior Research Fellow (JRF) posts. Interested persons can apply for Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) –DIBER Recruitment Notification 2020 through the prescribed application format on or before 31 December 2020. Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO)  Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) –DIBER Recruitment Notification 2020: Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) –DIBER has invited applications for the Junior Research Fellow (JRF) posts. Interested persons can apply for Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) –DIBER Recruitment Notification 2020 through the prescribed application format on or before 31 December 2020. DRDO -DIBER offers a latest job opportunity titled as DRDO -DIBER Recruitment 2020 for the engagement of Junior Research Fellow  (JRF)–06 Vacancies. Persons who are having M.Sc/ M.Tech (Relevant ...

Demonstrations were held on a shore-based facility at Naval Air Station Patuxent river in Maryland, U.S. Boeing on Monday announced the successful demonstration of the compatibility of its F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jets with the Indian Navy’s aircraft carriers as part of its pitch for the Navy’s fighter procurement. The demonstrations, which were held in coordination with U.S. Navy on a shore-based facility at the Naval Air Station Patuxent river in Maryland, U.S., show that the F/A-18 Super Hornet would do well with the Indian Navy’s Short Takeoff but Arrested Recovery (STOBAR) system and validate earlier simulation studies done over the last two years, a senior company official said. “The first successful and safe launch of the F/A-18 Super Hornet from a ski-jump begins the validation process to operate effectively from Indian Navy aircraft carriers,” said Ankur Kanaglekar, Head, India Fighters Sales, Boeing Defense, Space and Security. The F/A-18 Block III Super Hornet would not...

The DRDO expects to complete the extension of range by May 2022. Astra is an indigenous beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile. The 'Astra' beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile developed by DRDO India is working on an extended range of the indigenous beyond-visual-range (BVR) air-to-air missile ‘Astra’ (Sanskrit/Hindi for a launched weapon), which will enable it to strike enemy targets 160 km away, without getting out of its own airspace, ThePrint has learnt. The development comes even as work is on to integrate the current 110 km version of the Astra Mk 1 on board the Indian Air Force’s MiG-29 and Light Combat Aircraft ‘Tejas’ Mk 1, and the Indian Navy’s MiG-29K aircraft. The Astra Mark 1 is already integrated with the IAF’s Su-30 MKI fighters, and the production process — by state-owned Bharat Dynamics Limited — has begun. Once the overall integration plans are completed, the Astra will be the standard long-range air-to-air missile across India’s entire fighter fleet, excep...

In a major boost for the surveillance capabilities of Indian Air Force along the borders with China and Pakistan, DRDO is making six new ‘Made in India’ planes. These would be built on passenger aircraft flying with Air India. In a major boost for the surveillance capabilities of Indian Air Force along the borders with China and Pakistan, DRDO is making six new ‘Made in India’ planes. These would be built on passenger aircraft flying with Air India. “As per the plans the six new aircraft would be made in India by the DRDO and would be provided to the Air Force in the Rs 10,500 crore project which is expected to be cleared soon at the topmost level.” The six new aircraft would be known as the Airborne Early Warning and Control Block 2 planes that would be better equipped than their predecessor NETRA plane and provide 360-degree coverage deep inside the enemy territory during missions, said officials. To build the AEW&C system on the existing aircraft from the Air India fleet, th...

Representative Image Transforming by Rightsizing As a corollary is there a case for reducing an Infantry Section strength by one/two soldiers each and that of a platoon strength by one/two soldiers in lieu or so instead? For instance, a reduction of four soldiers per platoon would mean a cumulative reduction of 48xsoldiers per battalion. The Army has 400 battalions i.e. strength of 19200/40,000x soldiers’ reduction could be offset by recycling saved budget for better weaponry or may be side step in raising new structures like the Mountain Strike Corps etc. It is reiterated again that in spite of this reduction, if the EBO of a Platoon is same, then the analogy is true that there is a case for reduction of manpower in the existing organizations and that the savings be re-cycled towards modernization followed by transformation progressively correspondingly. A similar look is required in other arms and services as well. Even the Assam Rifles need a relook for rightsizing and releasing tro...

India on Friday successfully test-fired the Quick Reaction Surface to Air Missile (QRSAM) air defence system. The air defence missile system was tested from the Balasore flight test range. The missile hit its target directly during the test. Representative Image The QRSAM, a compact weapon system, comprises two four-walled radars both of which encompass 360-degree coverage, namely, the Active Array Battery Surveillance Radar and the Active Array Battery Multifunction Radar, apart from the launcher. According to the DRDO, the missile system is designed to protect moving armoured columns from aerial attacks. The entire weapon system is configured on highly mobile platforms and is capable of providing air defence on the move. Last week, An enhanced version of the Pinaka multi-barrel rocket system (MRLS) was successfully flight-tested. Indigenously developed by the DRDO, the enhanced Pinaka along with guidance Pinaka will cover the range between 60 to 90 kilometres and will be deployed by ...

India’s first anti-radiation missile ‘Rudram’ will be ready for induction into service by 2022 and will boost the Indian Air Force’s capabilities to knock out enemy radars and surveillance systems, top officials familiar with the developments said on Friday. India’s first anti-radiation missile ‘Rudram’ The indigenous missile, being developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) for the IAF, was tested for the first time in the anti-radiation mode from a Sukhoi-30 fighter jet on October 9 against a target on Wheeler Island off the Odisha coast. “We plan to carry out six to seven more tests before declaring the weapon ready for induction by 2022. The missile’s passive homing head can detect, classify and engage targets over a wide band of frequencies as programmed,” the officials said. #WATCH : 'Rudram’ Anti-Radiation Missile fired from a Sukhoi-30 fighter aircraft off the east coast. The missile, developed by Defence Research and Development Organisation, w...

A model of SANT missile on display by DRDO.   The air-to-surface missile developed by DRDO for the Indian Air Force was test fired from a roof-top launcher at the Integrated Test Range (ITR) against a static target. The air-to-surface missile developed by DRDO for the Indian Air Force was test fired from a roof-top launcher at the Integrated Test Range (ITR) against a static target.  In a bid to fast track its major strategic defence projects in the backdrop of Chinese aggression along the line of actual control, India on Monday successfully flight tested indigenously developed Stand-off Anti-tank (SANT) missile from a ground-based platform off Odisha coast. The air-to-surface missile developed by DRDO for the Indian Air Force was test fired from a roof-top launcher at the Integrated Test Range (ITR) against a static target. The crucial developmental trial conducted in association with Indian Air Force met all mission parameters as the missile hit the target with India’s Sta...

(Representative image) India on Sunday successfully test fired BrahMos supersonic cruise missile from Indian Navy’s indigenously-built stealth destroyer INS Chennai today hitting a target in the Arabian Sea. It hit the target successfully with pinpoint accuracy after performing high-level & extremely complex manoeuvres. The test comes in the wake of BrahMos missile having a range of around 400 km being tested from an integrated test range at Balasore in Odisha on September 30. "BrahMos as ‘prime strike weapon' will ensure the warship's invincibility by engaging naval surface targets at long ranges, thus making the destroyer another lethal platform of Indian Navy," the defence ministry said in a statement. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh congratulated the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), the BrahMos Aerospace and the Indian Navy for the "successful" test-firing of the missile. DRDO Chairman G Satheesh Reddy too congratulated the scie...