DRDO earmarked Rs 18,000 cr investment plans for the current fiscal

Chennai, Apr 13 The DRDO has earmarked Rs 18,000 crore as investment plans for the current fiscal, which incorporates developing the next generation lighter Brahmos missile, a top official said today.

The country's premier defence research institute has allocated about 25-30 percent for growing new projects amid the current financial year, Defence Research and Development Organization Chairman S Christopher said.

Christopher, who is also Secretary, Research and Development, DRDO, was sketching out a portion of the significant activities to be taken up amid the this monetary at the continuous DefExpo.

The defence exhibition was formally initiated yesterday by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Thiruvidanthai, around 40kms from here.

"To the extent subsidizing is worried, during the current year it is about Rs 18,000 crore. About 25-30 percent will go in for more newer projects," he said.

BrahMos Aerospace, CEO and Managing Director, Sudhir Mishra stated, "We have a proposition to create BrahMos next generation missiles which will be named as BrahMos NG missile."

"This missile would be lighter than existing BrahMos and will have relatively comparative sort of extents and would have the capacity to propelled from different stages," he said.

As the missiles would be lighter, BrahMos was likewise additionally intending to have more launches from submarines, boats and flying machine, the director said.

DRDO, Director General, Electronics and Communication Systems, J Manjula said DRDO was taking a shot at long range radars that can cover more than 1,000 kilometers.

"We are also working on developing self-security suites for warrior aircrafts and also working on electro-optic observation systems for submarines," she said.

DRDO Scientific Advisor to Raksha Mantri, G Satheesh Reddy, said they were chipping away at "hostile to tank missiles" which can be propelled both from helicopter and the ground.

"A portion of the activities that we have in the pipeline is growing long range variant of surface-to-air rocket (SAM)," he included.

The DRDO chairman said the association was additionally wanting to take up "high continuance independent submerged vehicle" for reconnaissance applications and furthermore creating "self-ruling surface ship".

DRDO, Director General (SAM), Chitra Rajgopal said they were dealing with creating safe-stockpiling answer for ammo.

"We are also looking at underground solutions which are not all that costly by using different inventive highlights. Likewise, we are additionally taking a gander at eco-accommodating transfer of out of date ammo," she said.