Achievements made by DRDO

Achievements made by DRDO

    Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) is a Mission Mode Organisation, which is primarily engaged in design and development of strategic, complex and security sensitive systems for the Armed Forces. DRDO has developed number of systems/products/ technologies, a large number of which have already been productionised. 

The value of systems/products/technologies developed by DRDO and inducted into Services or in the process of induction stands at over Rs. 1,90,000 Crore. 

These include combat vehicles; missiles; multi-barrel rocket launcher; unmanned aerial vehicles; radars; electronic warfare systems; sonars; torpedos; bridging systems; combat aircraft; sensors; NBC technologies; parachutes; combat free fall systems; propellants and explosives; detonators; communication systems; armaments systems; cyber systems, etc.

These are helpful in the long run for the country to achieve self-reliance in defence sector.

Some of the major products/systems developed by DRDO and accepted/inducted by Armed Forces are:

Platforms:

• · Light Combat Aircraft ‘Tejas’
• · Remotely Piloted Vehicle ‘Nishant’
• · Pilotless Target Aircraft ‘Lakshya-I’
• · Main Battle Tank ‘Arjun Mk-I’
• · Armoured Amphibious Dozer Mk-I
• · Armoured Engineer Recce Vehicle
• · NBC Recce Vehicle
• · Bridging Systems ‘Sarvatra’

Sensors:

• · Airborne Early Warning & Control (AEW&C)
• · Integrated Sonar System for EKM Submarine.
• · Hull Mounted Sonar.
• · Short Range Battle Field Surveillance Radar
• · Weapon Locating Radar ‘Swathi’
• · 3D Low Level Light Weight Radar ‘Aslesha’ Mk-I
• · 3D Surveillance Radar ‘Revathi’
• · Electronic Warfare System for Navy ‘Sangraha’
• · Electronic Warfare System for Army ‘Samyukta’
• · Electronic Warfare System ‘Divya Drishti’
• · Electronic Support Measure ‘Varuna’
• · Commander’s Thermal Imager Mk-II for T-72, T-90 and BMP tanks
• · Holographic Sights for Small Weapons

Weapon Systems:

• · Akash Weapon System
• · Prithvi Missile for Army and Air Force
• · Supersonic Cruise Missile ‘BrahMos’
• · Multi Barrel Rocket Launcher System ‘Pinaka’ Mk-I
• · Torpedo Advanced Light
• · Heavy Weight Ship Launched Torpedo ‘Varunastra’

Soldier Support Systems:

• · Computerised Pilot Selection System for Indian Air Force
• · Telemedicine System for Navy
• · Submarine Escape Suit
• · Flame Retardant Gloves
• · NBC products

   DRDO has been making all possible efforts to increase indigenous content in DRDO products. The percentage of import content in some of the major DRDO systems are given below:

System	Import Content (in %)
Airborne Early Warning & Control (AEW&C) System (excluding Aircraft)	16
Pilotless Target Aircraft (PTA), Lakshya	5- 7
Remotely Piloted Vehicle (RPV), Nishant	10
Aircraft Arrester Barrier	5
Light Combat Aircraft (LCA)	40
Combat Free Fall System	35
Parachutes	0
Heavy Drop System	10
Agni Missile	15
Prithvi Missile	15
Akash Missile	10
Nag Missile	30
Supersonic Cruise Missile, BrahMos	65
Long Range Surface to Air Missile (LR-SAM)	60
Multi Barrel Rocket System-Pinaka	10
MBT Arjun	55
Radars	10
Electronic Warfare Systems	5– 30
Sonars	5- 30
Pocket Dosimeter	12
Portable Dose Rate Meter	9
Roentegnometer	6
NBC Recce Vehicle	5

- PTI

Indigenisation of Defence Sector

Indigenisation of Defence Sector

    The Defence Production Policy, aims at achieving substantive self-reliance in the design, development and production of equipment, weapon systems, platforms required for defence in as early a time frame possible; creating conditions conducive for the private industry to take an active role in this endeavour, enhancing potential of SMEs in indigenisation and broadening the defence R&D base of the country. Indigenous manufacturing of defence equipments is encouraged by the Government through several policy measures, which, inter-alia, include the following:

•  Preference to ‘Buy (Indian)’, ‘Buy and Make (Indian)’ & ‘Make’ categories of capital acquisition over ‘Buy & Make (Global)’ or ‘Buy (Global)’ categories in Defence Procurement Procedure. 
 
• Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Policy under which Foreign Investment Cap upto 49% is allowed through automatic route and above 49% under Government route on case-to-case basis, wherever it is likely to result in access to modern and ‘state-of-art’ technology in the country. The foreign investment in defence sector is further subject to industrial license under the Industries (Development & Regulation) Act, 1951. 
 
• Industrial licensing regime for Indian manufacturers has been liberalised and most of the components/ parts/ sub-systems have been taken out from the list of defence products requiring Industrial Licence. This has reduced entry barriers for new entrants in this sector, particularly small and medium enterprises. The initial validity of Industrial Licence has been increased from 3 years to 15 years with a provision to further extend it by 3 years on a case to case basis.
 
• Issues related to level-playing field between Indian vs. foreign manufacturers and public sector vs. private sector have also been addressed. These include Exchange Rate Variation (ERV) protection for Indian vendors, offset obligations in ‘Buy (Global)’ cases, Excise/ Custom duties on defence equipments, etc.
 
• Offset implementation process has been made flexible by allowing change of Indian Offset Partners (IOPs) and offset components, even in signed contracts. Foreign Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) are now not required to indicate the details of IOPs and products at the time of signing of contracts. Services as an avenue of offset have been re-instated with certain conditionalities.

In the current financial year 2015-16, Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion (DIPP) has issued 61 Industrial Licenses (ILs) for manufacture of various defence equipment under IDR Act 1951, till December 2015.

This information was given by Minister of State for Defence Shri Rao Inderjit Singh in a written reply to Shri Lal Sinh Vadodia in Rajya Sabha today.

-PTI