THE DRDO began developing Abhay, an Infantry Combat Vehicle (ICV), in the late 1990s and the design work was completed by 2001. Abhay is a pre-technology demonstrator to develop and test technologies to be...
New Delhi. India's Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) is participating in the International Aerospace and Defence Exhibition Aero India 2019, which is being held at Yelahanka Air Force Station in Bengaluru from February...
IN their 2010 book “Arming Without Aiming”, authors Stephen Cohen and Sunil Dasgupta have this devastating comment to make: “With the exception of nuclear weapons, the history of Indian defence research and development has...
MEGATRENDS: Certain discernible megatrends are impacting the Defence, Security and Disaster Management firmament. The first is that there is a growing shift in global economic power from West to East. Secondly, the rate of...
Chandipur. India's Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) successfully flight tested the second indigenously developed Solid Fuel Ducted Ramjet (SFDR) propulsion based missile system from Integrated Test Range (ITR), Chandipur in Odisha on February...
NEW DELHI. Minister of State (MoS) for Defence Dr Subhash Bhamre inaugurated a Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) workshop on ‘Fire Safety Technologies and Services’ in New Delhi on January 21.
Fire Adviser, Ministry...
Visakhapatnam. Naval Science & Technological Laboratory (NSTL) organised the NSTL – Academia Meet (NAM 2019) at Mohapatra Manasi Auditorium, NSTL in Visakhapatnam on January 19.
With the theme “Artificial Intelligence for Naval Systems”, NAM...
NEW DELHI. The first-ever Indian Standard (IS) on Bullet Resistant Jacket (BRJ) for protection against small arms and ammunition for the defence, paramilitary and police forces was released at a meeting jointly organised by...
NEW DELHI. The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) pavilion received ‘Exhibitor of the Year Award’ at 106th Indian Science Congress held at Lovely Professional University (LPU), Phagwara, Punjab on January 7.
The pavilion narrated...
NEW DELHI. Dr SUM Reddy has been appointed the new Director of DRDO laboratory Microwave Tube Research & Development Centre (MTRDC), Bengaluru, with effect from November 30, 2018.
Dr. Reddy, Scientist G, holds an M....
NEW DELHI. The Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) chaired by Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on December 1 accorded approval for the acquisition of defence equipment worth Rs 3,000 crore including indigenous BrahMos missile for two...
NEW DELHI. Deefence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) Chairman Dr G Satheesh Reddy said that cyber security is one of the biggest challenges and emphasised on bringing the academia, industries and DRDO together for...
Born in a Pune-based technocrat family, Baba Kalyani attended BITS Pilani and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for his BE (Hons.) in Mechanical Engineering and MS respectively. Baba Kalyani joined Bharat Forge, a global...