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The exercise will comprise of 120 soldiers each from Indian and United Kingdom Army who would be sharing their experiences gained during conduct of various counter-insurgency and counter-terrorist operations in the past.
Reddy in an exclusive interview to IANS said: “Make in India is an opportunity for DRDO. It works on indigenous technology. So far we have manufactured a number of defence products in collaboration with several industries. Manufacturing of Akash Missile in Rs 2,500 crore is a great example of this. Along with this we are working with 1,800 Industries.”
Kota said that of the 400 projects, 398 were successful, which is a very good outcome. He lauded the collaboration with the academia and said that the LCA, unlike the other aircraft did not meet with a single accident.
“The coastal surveillance system will be enhanced with 38 more radar stations and 5 command and control centres along the coastline for the ICG to step-up maritime security,” an official of the city-based defence enterprise told IANS here.
The country will received 400 ready to use gun systems and rest 1,580 will be indigenously produced through SKD and CKD under ToT with Israel. Gun Carriage Factory in collaboration with other sister factories will indigenously produce ATHOS
India will receive two Talwar-class Project 11356 frigates currently under construction at the Yantar Shipyard in Kaliningrad in west Russia by the end of the first half of 2024, according to the press office of Russia’s Federal Service for Military and Technical Cooperation. The Indian Navy currently has six of these ships.
The pacts were inked at the on-going defence expo, two days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi set a target of $5 billion in defence exports in the next five years and make India self-reliant in military manufacturing.
Officials have taken a two-pronged approach — through the CDS and the bureaucracy — to ensure faster clearance of the draft Indian Defence University (IDU) Bill from the Prime Minister’s Office. The matter is also set to be raised with the chiefs of the defence services and the defence minister.
The device, the developers claim, can identify the location of a bullet from a distance of 400 metres. The technology could help neutralise terrorists faster, especially in areas such as Jammu and Kashmir, where the security forces have been fighting a proxy war.
Expanding its operations in India, French defence firm Thales and Kanpur-based defence manufacturer MKU announced on Friday that they will jointly develop night vision devices for the armed forces in India and across the world.
