To expand defence manufacturing base, DRDO transfers tech on 9 systems

NEW DELHI: DRDO has transferred technologies of 9 onshore systems and limb platforms, including for mounted artillery guns and CBRN (chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear) reconnaissance vehicles, to defence PSUs and backstage companies for production.In enactment with the govt's imaginativeness to found a robust defence concern ecosystem, DRDO laboratory Vehicles Research & Development Establishment (VRDE) located adjacent Ahmednagar successful Maharashtra handed implicit the licencing agreements to the antithetic companies connected Saturday, officials said.DRDO president Samir V Kamat, speaking connected the occasion, praised the "exceptional performance" of indigenous systems similar the Akash aerial defence missiles during Operation Sindoor.

The country's defence manufacture should besides program for "surge capacity" during specified situations, helium said.The technologies transferred by VRDE included CBRN recce conveyance (tracked) Mark-II to defence PSU Bharat Electronics (BEL) and the mounted weapon strategy to backstage assemblage institution Bharat Forge.The others were anti-terrorist vehicles (tracked) to Metaltech Motor Bodies Private Ltd; expandable mobile structure to BEL; Vajra riot power vehicles to Tata Advanced Systems Ltd; and multi-purpose decontamination systems to Dass Hitachi Limited and Goma Engineering Private Limited.

The different technologies were connected to the Arjun main-battle tanks. The afloat trailer vessel transporter to BEML, Tata International Vehicle Applications, SDR Auto Private Ltd and John Galt International. The technologies for the attraction conveyance and repair conveyance for the Arjun tanks, successful turn, was fixed to BEML.