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India to be missile-import free by 2022: DRDO to PMO
Read more at:
India to be missile-import free by 2022: DRDO to PMO - The Economic Times
NEW DELHI: DRDO plans to
make the country "missile import free" by 2022, the defence research agency has
told the Prime Minister's Office.
"Our target is to make India
missile-import free by the year 2022. This means that we need not import any
missile in terms of air-to-ground, surface-to-air or the air-to-air missiles,"
DRDO chief Avinash
Chander told PTI.
"We have shared our vision with the Prime
Minister's Office and the government at the top-level," he said.
The DRDO chief said over the years, the country has already developed an
expertise in the field of strategic missiles such as the Agni and Prithvi
missiles which have now been inducted into the armed forces.
After the
imposition of ban on Indian military research establishments, India attained the
know-how and developed strategic missile systems indigenously with very little
or negligible equipment being imported from outside the country for them.
He said a number of of missile development programmes were on where DRDO was working to make
missiles to replace the imported systems. The systems being developed include
the air-to-air AstraBSE -1.13 % missile,
1,500km-range Nirbhay sub-sonic cruise missile and the BMP-mounted Nag anti-tank
guided missile system.
To a query on the export prospects of indigenous
systems, Chander said the government has to evolve a policy in this regard.
He said DRDO was of the view that private sector firms should be given the responsibility of developing equipment based on the technology provided by it and also market it abroad.
DRDO has plans to export its fully-developed equipment such as the Pragati missile, which was
showcased recently in foreign military exhibitions in countries such as South Korea, the Akash missile
system and the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile.
Read more at:
India to be missile-import free by 2022: DRDO to PMO - The Economic Times
Read more at:
India to be missile-import free by 2022: DRDO to PMO - The Economic Times
NEW DELHI: DRDO plans to
make the country "missile import free" by 2022, the defence research agency has
told the Prime Minister's Office.
"Our target is to make India
missile-import free by the year 2022. This means that we need not import any
missile in terms of air-to-ground, surface-to-air or the air-to-air missiles,"
DRDO chief Avinash
Chander told PTI.
"We have shared our vision with the Prime
Minister's Office and the government at the top-level," he said.
The DRDO chief said over the years, the country has already developed an
expertise in the field of strategic missiles such as the Agni and Prithvi
missiles which have now been inducted into the armed forces.
After the
imposition of ban on Indian military research establishments, India attained the
know-how and developed strategic missile systems indigenously with very little
or negligible equipment being imported from outside the country for them.
He said a number of of missile development programmes were on where DRDO was working to make
missiles to replace the imported systems. The systems being developed include
the air-to-air AstraBSE -1.13 % missile,
1,500km-range Nirbhay sub-sonic cruise missile and the BMP-mounted Nag anti-tank
guided missile system.
To a query on the export prospects of indigenous
systems, Chander said the government has to evolve a policy in this regard.
He said DRDO was of the view that private sector firms should be given the responsibility of developing equipment based on the technology provided by it and also market it abroad.
DRDO has plans to export its fully-developed equipment such as the Pragati missile, which was
showcased recently in foreign military exhibitions in countries such as South Korea, the Akash missile
system and the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile.
Read more at:
India to be missile-import free by 2022: DRDO to PMO - The Economic Times
Their is lot more to cover..PMO watching over you DRDO.
