More info on DRDO's many projects

DRDO has a new website for Aeroindia 2003 (Feb) to be held next year. It is much better than their official one and brings out many of their lesser known products.

Here it is:
http://www.drdo-aeroindia.com/home.html

I am putting down something to start the thread and I request Harry, Fly, Sq, Shalav and others to fish out more.

Thanx

PS: the rest of this post is mostly copy-paste from the website.

[HR]

* The persistent effort made by DRDO has resulted in delivery of a large number of state-of-the-art weapon systems such as indian field gun, 5.56mm small arms, EW System AJANTA, COIN, TEMPEST, unmanned aerial target vehicle LAKSHYA, PRITHVI & AGNI missiles, Sonars such as HUMVAD, PANCHENDRIYA and MBT Arjun and bridging system, SARVATRA to the armed forces.

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* LAKSHYA is a Pilotless Target Aircraft that simulates enemy aerial threats. It is a cost effective, reusable system used for the training of land, ship based air defence crews and combat pilots in weapon training. It is the first indigenous flight vehicle which is being inducted by all the three arms of Indian Armed Forces. It is already in use by Indian Air Force and Navy. LAKSHYA can be ground or ship launched from a zero length launcher. LAKSHYA is remotely piloted from a Ground Control Station (GCS).

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* Nishant: The user trials by the Army has been completed now, successfully.

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* NAG is a 3rd Generation Anti-tank Missile System with “fire and forget” and “top attack” capabilities. The state-of-the-art Imaging Infra-Red (IIR) homing guidance system has Lock-On-Before Launch (LOBL) capability for day & night operation.

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* Trishul is a quick reaction SAM (Surface-to-Air Missile) system, configured to counter low-flying aircraft, helicopters and anti-ship missiles. It has an intercept range of 9.5km and altitude up to4.5km. It uses dual-thrust, hight-energy, solid-propulsion system in a flow-formed high strength steel chamber and works under Command Guidance. It has the necessary ECCM to counter- present and future ECM threats. It can also be used as an anti-sea skimmer against low-flying missile attack, by the Navy.

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