DRDO started its first major project in surface-to-air missiles (SAM) known as Project Indigo in 1960s. Indigo was discontinued in later years

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1 DRDO started its first major project in surface-to-air missiles (SAM) known as Project Indigo in 1960s. Indigo was discontinued in later years without achieving full success. Project Indigo led to Project Devil, along with Project Valiant, to develop short-range SAM and ICBM in the 1970s. Project Devil itself led to the later development of the Prithvi missile under the Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme (IGMDP) in the 1980s. IGMDP was an Indian Ministry of Defence programme between the early 1980s and 2007 for the development of a comprehensive range of missiles, including the Agni missile, Prithvi ballistic missile, Akash missile, Trishul missile and Nag Missile. In 2010, then defence minister A. K. Antony ordered the restructuring of the DRDO to give 'a major boost to defence research in the country and to ensure effective participation of the private sector in defence technology'. The key measures to make DRDO effective in its functioning include the establishment of a Defence Technology Commission with the defence minister as its chairman. The programmes which were largely managed by DRDO have seen considerable success with many of the systems seeing rapid deployment as well as yielding significant technological benefits. DRDO has achieved many successes since its establishment in developing other major systems and critical technologies such as aircraft avionics, UAVs, small

2 arms, artillery systems, EW Systems, tanks and armoured vehicles, sonar systems, command and control systems and missile systems. Projects :- 1) Aeronautics :- Aionics, flight control systems, aircraft propulsion and composite structures, along with aircraft design and development. radar warning receivers, radar and display computers. DRDO's radar computers, manufactured by HAL are also being fitted into Malaysian Su-30s 2) Unmanned aerial vehicles :- DRDO Abhyas DRDO AURA DRDO Fluffy DRDO Imperial Eagle DRDO Kapothaka DRDO Lakshya DRDO Netra DRDO Nishant Pawan UAV DRDO Rustom DRDO Ulka 3) Armaments :- DRDO cooperates with the state owned Ordnance Factories Board for producing its items. 4) Indian CL-20 explosive,

3 5) Artillery systems and ammunition Pinaka multi barrel rocket launcher :- 6) Tank armament DRDO's ARDE also developed other critical systems, such as the Arjun Main Battle Tank's 120 mm rifled main gun and is presently engaged in the development of the armament for the Future IFV, the "Abhay". The DRDO is also a member of the trials teams for the T-72 upgrade and its fire control systems. Earlier on, the DRDO also upgraded the Vijayanta medium tank with new fire control computers. 7) Electronics and computer sciences Electronic warfare EW systems for the Air Force Army Multifunction Phased Array Radar and 3D Surveillance Radar for Akash Missile Weapon System (Rajendra & 3D CAR respectively) Low Level Light weight 2D Radar for mountainous terrain Air Defence (Bharani) 3D -Tactical Control Radar for Air Defence (3D TCR) Short Range Battle Field Surveillance Radar (2D BFSR-SR) Weapon Locating Radar (3D WLR) Multi Mission Radar (MMSR) FOPEN Radar Through wall detection Radar

4 Ground Penetration Radar Air Force Multifunction Phased Array Radar and 3D Surveillance Radar for Akash Missile Weapon System (Rajendra and 3D CAR respectively) Active Phased Array Radar for AEW&C Low level 2D Air Defence Radar (Indra-2) 3D Low Level Light Weight Radar (Aslesha) 3D Medium Range Surveillance Radar for Air Defence (Rohini derivative of 3D CAR) 4D Active Array Medium Power radar for AD role Airborne Electronically Scanned Array Radar for Tejas Mark II Ground Controlled interception SAR for UAVs Navy Maritime Patrol Radar for fixed and Rotary Wing Aircraft (superseded by more advanced system) Maritime Patrol Radar with RS and ISAR (XV-2004) 3D Medium Range Surveillance Radar for ASW Corvettes Multifunction Phased Array Radar for Air Defence Ship Maritime Patrol Airborne Radar for UAV Coastal Surveillance Radar (CSR) 8) Laser Science & Technology Centre (LASTEC) 9) Combat vehicles & engineering

5 Arjun MBT T -72 ajeya 10) Other engineering vehicles Bridge Layer Tank, 11) Naval research and development Sonars:- DRDO, BEL and the Indian Navy have developed and productionised a range of sonars and related systems for the Indian Navy's frontline combat ships. APSOH (Advanced Panoramic SOnar Hull mounted), HUMVAD (Hull Mounted Variable Depth sonar), HUMSA (Follow on to the APSOH series; the acronym HUMSA stands for Hull Mounted Sonar Array), Nagin (Towed Array Sonar), Panchendriya (Submarine sonar and fire control system). Torpedoes :- DRDO is currently engaged in developing multiple torpedo designs. These include a lightweight torpedo that has been accepted by the Navy and cleared for production. Under development :- Advanced Light Torpedo Shyena is an advanced experimental torpedo developed by the Naval Scientific and Technological Laboratory (NSTL), a DRDO wing. Development was started in 1990.

6 NSTL Advanced Lightweight Torpedo [66] NSTL Varunastra Heavy Weight Torpedo: [67] The heavy weight wire-guided torpedo called Varunastra and Thakshak thermal torpedo are suitable for use against both ships and submarines. The electrically powered Varunastra is stated to be in production. 12) Mines and targets Three kinds of mines, processor based mine, moored mine and processor based exercise mine are in production for the Navy. Targets developed for the Navy include a static target called the Versatile Acoustic target and a mobile target called the programmable deep mobile target (PDMT). 13) Missiles will Disscuss in another video