Ever since the NDA government came to power in 2014, DRDO has been put high on the radar with the focus on developing indigenous and self-reliable weapon systems. Following this, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar recently released a list of products by the DRDO that has been most successful since past 3 years.
While the recently held Def-Expo 2016 put India on high levels of standards, the Defence Procurement Procedure makes it easy to acquire arms for defence forces in India with new bullet proof jackets for its soldiers.
According to this report, a list of 70 products and systems were released that have been developed by the DRDO, many of which have been inducted into the armed forces and others being at various stages of trials, production and induction.
This will not be exclusively for the armed forces but can also be used by Central Armed Police Force (CAPF), state police units and National Disaster Response Force (NDRF). For this, the Ministry of Home Affairs has shortlisted about 146 items for trials, out of which, trials of 78 products have already been completed and are ready for induction.
The list of successful products includes Air Defence Weapon Systems, variants of bombs and bomb mortars, Shells and Cartridges, Surveillance Radars, Thermal Imagers for battle tanks, Holographic Sights for Small Weapons among various other products with cutting edge technology.
This gives a major boost to Make in India and indigenous arms development. We only hope to see the list of 70 items to be doubled after a few more years.
