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India To Boost Missile, Avionics Research at Hyderabad
NEW DELHI - India's future hub for missiles and avionics will be Hyderabad, the capital of the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh and home of the current minister of state for defense, M.M. Pallam Raju.
India's defense research agency, the Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO), has embarked on a program to greatly expand aviation and missile research, including an advanced hypersonic wind tunnel facility for testing missiles, said a senior Defence Ministry official.
This is part of an overall investment of more than $400 million in Hyderabad to boost missile and aviation research and development.
V.K. Saraswat, scientific adviser to the defense minister and the director-general of DRDO, has announced, "Hyderabad is going to be an aviation hub in the days to come."
Hyderabad currently houses India's sole missile production complex, Bharat Dynamics, and the Defence Research and Development Laboratory, which is helping to develop India's future anti-ballistic missile defense program. The hypersonic test facility is part of that program, which aims to develop a system to shoot down incoming enemy missiles at a height of more than 100 kilometers using hypersonic missiles.
Currently, there are no facilities to test missiles that are faster than Mach 5, which fall into the category of hypersonic.
India To Boost Missile, Avionics Research at Hyderabad - Defense News
NEW DELHI - India's future hub for missiles and avionics will be Hyderabad, the capital of the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh and home of the current minister of state for defense, M.M. Pallam Raju.
India's defense research agency, the Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO), has embarked on a program to greatly expand aviation and missile research, including an advanced hypersonic wind tunnel facility for testing missiles, said a senior Defence Ministry official.
This is part of an overall investment of more than $400 million in Hyderabad to boost missile and aviation research and development.
V.K. Saraswat, scientific adviser to the defense minister and the director-general of DRDO, has announced, "Hyderabad is going to be an aviation hub in the days to come."
Hyderabad currently houses India's sole missile production complex, Bharat Dynamics, and the Defence Research and Development Laboratory, which is helping to develop India's future anti-ballistic missile defense program. The hypersonic test facility is part of that program, which aims to develop a system to shoot down incoming enemy missiles at a height of more than 100 kilometers using hypersonic missiles.
Currently, there are no facilities to test missiles that are faster than Mach 5, which fall into the category of hypersonic.
India To Boost Missile, Avionics Research at Hyderabad - Defense News
