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Prem Kumar wrote: . They've even gone 1 step further and started including components. At this rate, expect to see nuts & bolts in the next list

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Think of it as scorched earth policy for any defence imports. Congress or whovever fancies of coming to power has so much of less incentive to turn MOD into a cash machine. Putting it publicly might also motivate more people to manufacture those here. Such granularity is unavoidable since MOD never attempted to indigenize before 2014. This is part of long timeline to gradually kill imports except in niche areas.
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Vips wrote:
mody wrote: Also, there seems to be some confusion with regards to towed artillery systems. 155mm 52 caliber towed artillery guns were banned as part of the first NO-IMPORT list itself. The date was set as Dec-2020. There was speculation that this might be extended to Dec-2021 to push ATHOS through. As there is no extension for imports granted for this type of guns, the chances for ATAGS improve.
However, the yahudi brothers might still try to get in by offering indigenous manufacturing from the 1st piece itself, rather than import an X number of pieces initially, followed by ToT and local production.
Against the Indian government policy of considering foreign origin goods qualified as 'Made in India' if it is assembled/manufactured in India if 50% of the parts are manufactured in India under TOT, Israel has offered to make all the 1580 Athos in India through the Kalyani group with 75% of the parts to be manufactured in India under TOT.
You are right. All that the negative list bans is the outright import of the particular system. If the product is manufactured (read assembled) in India, its OK.

This will also account for the ban on 5.56mm carbines. It only promotes manufacturing/assembling in India, like the Xiaomi phones and not indigenous development and manufacturing of products.
Big Big difference and a real disappointment.
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5.56 carbines did not make it to the list. But I would say even class 1 local manufacturer clause (50% content) makes a world of difference and is a good starting point to define indigenization. Government can keep cranking up the definition of class 1 local supplier every couple of years by 10% as the manufacturing base expands.
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Tentative Schedule for i4D 2021, Defence Innovation Organisation, Ministry of Defence

https://idex.gov.in/notices-circulars

https://idex.gov.in/sites/default/files ... 285%29.pdf
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FUTURISTIC AIRBORNE SURVEILLANCE TECHNOLOGIES
Vol 29 | Issue 3 | June 2021 | ISSN No. 0971 - 4413
Technology Focus
https://www.drdo.gov.in/sites/default/f ... %20web.pdf
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came across
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their brochure
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really we have to admire Navy guys,,,,
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DRDO initiates the trials of advanced stealth SWiFT drone

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ndia’s premier defence research agency, Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has initiated the ground trials of SWiFT, 1-ton All Up Weight (AUW) Technological Demonstrator for the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (Stealth Bomber). The trials will be conducted on the first assembled prototype, which will be involved in a series of low, medium, and high-speed taxi testing to fathom aircraft’s performance and instrumentation by a ground control station to ascertain the functionality of the unmanned vehicle when it reaches a high speed.

SWiFT has been powered by an NPO Saturn 36MT turbofan engine, which is manufactured by NPO Saturn Russia, for powering advanced trainers, light attack aircraft and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) that will be later replaced by Gas Turbine Research Establishment’s (GTRE) Small Turbo Fan Engine (STFE).

Undertaking SWiFT

SWiFt is an advanced technology project, which prepares the Technology Readiness Levels (TRL) which enables consistent, uniform discussions of technical maturity across different types of technology. Further, SWiFT will collect data on the controllability of flying wing configuration, flying control, autonomous take-off and landing technology. Besides, retractable landing gear system, low radar signature and flying wing design data of the aircraft will be used for further improvements.

Specification of SWiFT

The wingspan of SWiFT is 5 metres long and the length is 4 metres long. The overall weight of the unmanned vehicle would be 1,050 kg. The command range of SWiFT would be 200 kilometres. Further, SWift will achieve an altitude of 6,000 metres above mean sea level and flight endurance of 1 hour will be proved.

Additionally, SWift’s validated technologies will be used in India’s Ghatak stealth flying wing combat drone-powered. Notably, SWiFT might also go into production as part of the unmanned wingman bomber program separately.

DRDO’s landing gear systems for Tapas and SWiFT UAVs

Earlier this year, Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) also delivered retractable landing gear (RLG) systems for two different classes of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), Tapas and SWiFT.

DRDO’s Combat Vehicles Research and Development Establishment (CVRDE) laboratory has designed and developed the systems, which were delivered to Aeronautical Development Establishment (ADE) in Bengaluru.

The laboratory built a 3t RLG system for Tapas UAV and 1t RLG for SWiFT UAV. SWiFT’s RLG has been produced with the support of Indian industry and due inspection and certification of the Centre for Military Airworthiness & Certification (CEMILAC) and Directorate General of Aeronautical Quality Assurance (DGAQA).


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India Inc to discover and extract mineral reserves 6,000 meter beneath the ocean

In April, a gaggle of scientists from Chennai boarded an ice-strengthened vessel to check an indigenously developed mining machine, Varaha-1, within the Central Indian Ocean. It was a week-long journey off the Tamil Nadu coast earlier than reaching the vacation spot from the place they launched the machine through the use of a deep-sea umbilical cable. On the seabed, at a depth of 5,270 m, the mining machine efficiently crawled, enterprise the specified locomotion trials for 3 hours earlier than being retrieved on deck.It was a second of nice satisfaction for the 2 dozen scientists, engineers and technicians on board, senior scientist and director of National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT), Dr GA Ramadass, tells ET. Their jubilant temper was captured in a photograph shot at evening mode on April 16, with the yellow Varaha-1 within the backdrop.Varaha-1’s journey is a part of India’s gearing as much as hunt for treasures on ocean beds. It can be considering participating the non-public sector to make tools, perform exploration and even enterprise into business exploitation as and when will probably be permitted.Backed by the Rs 4,077 crore Deep Ocean Mission, authorised by the Union cupboard final week and by which mining is a serious element, India is all set to develop an built-in mining system by 2024-25. The blueprint contains creating a manned submersible to hold three individuals (two scientists and one pilot) to a depth of 6,000 m in addition to deploying a number of specifically designed mining machines equivalent to Varaha-1 to gather treasured metals from the seabed and pump these to the mothership, a transfer which will rewrite the very script of India’s vitality safety. 83876250“Very soon we will involve India’s private sector in deep ocean mining,” says Dr Madhavan Nair Rajeevan, Union secretary, Ministry of Earth Sciences, in a phone interview with ET. “Industry will play a critical role. Private companies will provide ships, build new technology, make electronic and mechanical components, and will also get engaged in exploration.At a later stage, when commercial exploitation is permitted, the private sector will likely partner the government in mining, too,” he says, including that the precise modality of the non-public partnership remains to be being labored out and will likely be introduced quickly.India is eying some 380 million tonnes of polymetallic nodules containing nickel, copper, cobalt and manganese which can be discovered on seabed or simply beneath the seabed within the Central Indian Ocean Basin (CIOB) the place India has unique rights over 75,000 sq km as allotted by the International Seabed Authority (ISA), a UN physique, again in 2002.Various estimates accessed by the federal government put the whole worth of the minerals otherwise, in a variety of $45 billion to $185 billion, though the Ministry of Earth Sciences has made public the common of these numbers, rounded at $110 billion, in its official communications. 83876275“As electric vehicles are the future of the world, imagine the importance of metals such as copper, nickel or cobalt. We all know China is controlling those items,” says secretary Rajeevan.It is estimated that CIOB accommodates some 4.7 million tonnes (MT) of nickel, 4.29 MT of copper, 0.55 MT of cobalt and 92.59 MT of manganese, along with enormous iron ore deposits, in accordance with GoI knowledge.That India is a web importer of minerals equivalent to copper, nickel or manganese reiterates the urgency of innovating cost-effective options to extract these from ocean beds. For instance, India in 2020 imported 5.Four lakh tonnes of copper (copper ores and concentrates), value $897 million, in accordance with Trade Map knowledge. 83876299Shailesh Nayak, former Union secretary within the Ministry of Earth Sciences and current director of Bengaluru-based National Institute of Advanced Studies, says cobalt and nickel are extremely vital strategically in in the present day’s electronics age. “We should, however, think of processing and packaging those precious metals in an innovative manner on the mothership itself rather than carrying those in raw form some 3,000 km to the coast and then transport those again to a processing unit,” says Nayak, himself a scientist.But there are a number of hurdles earlier than India might extract the reserve minerals from ocean beds. First, ISA has up to now given its permission just for exploration, not exploitation.Rajeevan doesn’t, nonetheless, contemplate it a hurdle, claiming that he expects the business exploitation code — a piece in progress at ISA—to be printed in two-three years. So, what India must wrap up by then is to get itself geared up with an economically viable technological mannequin to pump out these metals, a much-needed shot within the arm for India’s vitality safety in addition to financial well-being.The second problem is methods to extract minerals in a cheap method. Countries which have joined the race for deep-sea mining embody China, France, Germany, Japan, South Korea, Russia in addition to small islands such because the Cook Islands and Kiribati, however nobody will probably share the know-how they’ve invented.“Feasibility of commercial deep-sea mining will always be location-specific, depending on how valuable the mineral deposit is, and the technological and economic feasibility of its extraction. Depending on survey results which may indicate potential areas, we have to undertake exploration using appropriate technologies and also develop extraction technologies in the case of promising finds,” says former Union mining secretary S Vijay Kumar, including that personal sector ought to be concerned in manufacturing mining tools in addition to in constructing ships for geo-scientific surveys.At current, two heavy-engineering corporations, BHEL and L&T, are engaged in some minor work on the mission, particulars of which aren’t accessible.The reserve is undoubtedly profitable, however challenges to deliver the metals up are additionally humongous. They are embedded in polymetallic nodules, which appear like potatoes, the common measurement of 1 being about 10 cm, say scientists. But lifting these potatoes up is not any cakewalk. Ramadass of NIOT lists some hurdles — distant location, brutal excessive stress (500 instances greater than ambient atmospheric stress on floor), softer sea mattress, low visibility and water temperature of simply 3-Four diploma C. These minerals can be found 13 to 15 levels south of the equator, which means a distance of over per week by ship from India’s southernmost tip in Tamil Nadu.“Also, hydrothermal sulphides (with several metals in them) are available further away at some 26 degrees south of the equator in the Southern Indian Ocean. It’s some 5,000 km away from Indian coast and it takes a fortnight for a ship to reach there,” Ramadass provides.In addition to mining, the Deep Ocean Mission — the primary section of which is being applied in 2021-24 at an estimated value of `2,823 crore — will embody creation of ocean local weather change advisory providers, exploration of hydrothermal sulphides in midoceanic ridges and evolving human capability and enterprise for blue commerce and blue manufacturing.The price range earmarked for only one element within the mission — deep-sea mining and sending a manned submersible — is Rs 1,520 crore, out of which Rs 1,077 crore will likely be spent within the first three years. No one can complain of paucity of funds to experiment with new know-how and extraction strategies, not less than for now.There is a darker facet to your complete train: environmental hazards. After all, as soon as the mining machines begin whirring at a depth of 6,000 m, the ecology is certain to be disrupted. Nayak and a number of other different scientists say there could possibly be giant animals (fauna) inhabiting deep seabeds. “Humankind does not know much about those animals so far. So, we have to find a middle path between fostering a blue economy and keeping our environment alive,” he says.In reality, pictures to be captured by robots gained’t be adequate to know that terra incognita. At 6,000 m beneath, it’s pitch darkish. Secretary Rajeevan provides, “We will send two such scientists who understand the marine flora and fauna the best.” Maybe, the mission could have a by-product: unravelling some thriller animals deep down the Indian Ocean.
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This is probably the prototype being tested as in the above report

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looks like an undersea tractor /excavator :mrgreen: .,

https://www.wealthdaily.com/resources/u ... a%20floor.

To make a profit, Nautilus estimates that two million tons of rock need to be mined every year. Their 2005 drilling program yielded promising results, including 15.52 g/t gold, 12.24% g/t copper, 256 g/t silver, 4.3% g/t zinc and 1.77% g/t lead.

Seafloor massive sulfide (SMS) deposits were discovered during the 1960s. Essentially, they are younger versions of volcanogenic massive sulfide ores. These deposits can contain impressive grades of copper, lead, zinc, silver and gold.
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Noida Scientist Gets Top DRDO Prize For Concept To Identify People In Dark
Dr Shivani Verma submitted her concept - "AI-based detection of a person based on physiological parameters" - which won the award in the DRDO's "Dare To Dream 2.0" contest.
https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/noida-s ... rk-2459507
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CHW Forge, established in 1956, is a manufacturer forgings to oil and gas, petrochemicals, fertilisers, defence, and power generation industry.

Forging For Defence Industry
https://www.chwforge.com/industries/defence/
CHW Forge has the experience and capability to provide forgings to meet the needs and requirements of various defence organizations. We manufacture complex forgings for different applications which cater to Missiles, Battle Tanks (Upper and Lower Race Ring), Torpedos, Canisters, Missile launchers in Aluminium Alloys, Alloy Steel such as 15CDV6, 45XHM, Maraging Steel and so on. Our in-house research unit is working on the development of forgings with new materials to further improve the quality of products and meet varying requirements of the customers.

Over the past few years, CHW Forge has been actively involved in large Government Projects and takes pride in associating with some of the India’s most prestigious and iconic projects.

Products
• Bulk Head Forging
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• Forged Block
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With the repeated excellence and proven capability, CHW Forge has been approved and registered with some leading organizations.

• Advanced System Laboratory
• Advanced Naval Systems Programme
• BrahMos Aerospace Private Limited
• BrahMos Aerospace Thiruvananthapuram Limited
• Bharat Dynamics Limited
• Defence Research and Development Laboratory
• Gun Carriage Factory
• Godrej & Boyce Limited
• Heavy Vehicle Factory (HVF)
• Larsen & Toubro Limited
• Ordnance Factory Medak
• Programme ‘AD’
• R&DE
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CHW Forge manufactures Aluminium alloy rings upto a diameter of 2500mm and a maximum of 1000kg in various grades. Aluminium rings can be supplied in solution heat treatment, stress relieved & aged condition. These rings find application in aerospace & defence such as missile launch vehicles, aircrafts, supplementary tank/combat tank and so on.
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https://www.bhel.com/conference-calls-transcripts

BHEL Q4FY21 results supplementary information

https://www.bhel.com/sites/default/file ... 120621.pdf
Aerospace & Defence:
Working protocol signed with Zorya Ukraine, Indian Navy and BHEL, for localization of manufacturing of Marine Gas Turbine Aggregates in India- A step towards Atmanirbhar Bharat in Defence equipment production

Maiden Indigenous Aircraft Carrier (IAC) - INS Vikrant successfully completed basin trials at Kochi on 30 Nov 2020, wherein BHEL has supplied the Integrated Platform Management System (IPMS)

Appreciation letter received from ISRO’s Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre (LPSC), for completion of
manufacturing of Central Rings for Chandrayaan-3 Project in record time

Similarly in
https://www.bhel.com/sites/default/file ... 2-2021.pdf
• Signed three MoU’s with international majors in the fields of Maglev Train, Marine Gas Turbines for
defence applications and Armoured Trucks
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https://www.drdo.gov.in/sites/default/f ... ly2021.pdf
DRDO SUCCESSFULLY TEST FIRES ENHANCED PINAKA ROCKET
DRDO newsletter
JULY 2021 | VOLUME 41 | ISSUE 7


DRDO Develops Covid-19 Antibody Detection Kit
DRDO Develops Critical Near Isothermal Forging Technology for Aeroengines
DMRL Indigenizes Marine Grade Aluminium Alloy Sheets For Navy
Light Weight Torpedo Test Fired From Fixed Wing Aircraft Of The Indian Navy
Successful Conduct of 3Mw Da Irss Trials Onboard P71 Aircraft Carrier
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https://www.ndtv.com/education/iit-roor ... -challenge

IIT Roorkee Professor, Startup Win DRDO’s Innovation Challenge
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee Professor Sudipta Sarkar and Log9 Materials, a startup incubated at the institute, have won the “Dare to Dream 2.0” innovation contest organised by the Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO).
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Conformal Antenna!

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We are marching towards dual seeker for BVR. Conformal radar and IIR.
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jaysimha wrote:https://www.ndtv.com/education/iit-roor ... -challenge

IIT Roorkee Professor, Startup Win DRDO’s Innovation Challenge
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee Professor Sudipta Sarkar and Log9 Materials, a startup incubated at the institute, have won the “Dare to Dream 2.0” innovation contest organised by the Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO).
As it happens our startup was also awarded as a winner of Dare to Dream 2.0 contest.
Omg that article is full of rubbish.
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Press Information Bureau
Government of India
Ministry of Defence
02 JUL 2021 3:12PM by PIB Delhi
DRDO’s first production lot of 12 Short Span Bridging System-10 m inducted into Indian Army
https://pib.gov.in/Pressreleaseshare.aspx?PRID=1732250
The SSBS-10 m plays a crucial role of bridging the gaps up to 9.5 m as a single span providing a 4 m wide, fully decked roadway, ensuring faster movement of the troops. Research & Development Establishment (Engrs) Pune, a premier engineering laboratory of DRDO, has designed and developed the system in association with M/s L&T Ltd. The 12 bridges are part of 102 SSBS-10 m from M/s L&T Ltd, which is the production agency.

The Project Short Span Bridging System involved the development of two prototypes of 5 m SSBS on Tatra 6x6 chassis and another two prototypes of 10 m SSBS on Tatra 8x8 re-engineered chassis. Both the systems have undergone rigorous Directorate General of Quality Assurance (DGQA), MET and User trials and after successful completion of all the trials, the systems were recommended for induction into the services. This bridging system is compatible with Sarvatra Bridging System (75 m), where the last span requires covering gaps less than 9.5 m. The deployed bridge is of the load classification of MLC 70. The system will help in quick movement of troops and enhance the mobilization of resources.

The DRDO has vast experience in developing critical Combat Engineering Systems like Military Bridging Systems. Number of mechanised mobility solutions for the Indian Army like Single Span 5 m and 10 m, Short Span Bridging System, 46 m Modular Bridge, 20 m BLT-T72 and multi span 75 m Sarvatra Bridging System etc. have been developed. Manually launched 34.5 m Mountain Foot Bridge was also developed by DRDO earlier. These bridges have been widely accepted by the Indian Army.
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Extreme unprofessionalism on the behalf of DRDO and Invest India.
For Dare to Dream winners award ceremony: On 13th afternoon we get mail saying the ceremony on 16th , please book ticket immediately
On 14th (today) we get message saying award ceremony is postponed.
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https://www.iete.org/Brochure%20Final%2 ... .7.21).pdf

The Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE)
Organizes 5th National Innovators-Industry Meet– 2021 (In Hybrid Mode)

Theme

“Technological Innovations in Electronics & Related Fields for Aerospace and Defence Production”
Towards Atmanirbhar Bharat

on
26th & 27th August 2021
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BDL looks at next phase of growth, new areas
While expanding its product portfolios, BDL, which celebrated its 52nd Formation Day on Friday, is in the process of diversifying into new areas of Mines, Anti- Submarine Warfare Suite and Anti-Drone System.

Greeting employees, Commodore Siddharth Mishra (Retd), CMD, BDL, said BDL has a very good order book from the Armed Forces and is endeavouring to expand its footprint in the global market by offering its products to friendlycountries.

Over the last five decades, BDL has evolved to be among the few companies in the world with it’s facilities for manufacture and supply of Guided Missiles, Underwater Weapons, Air-borne products and allied defence equipment for Indian Armed Forces.

BDL, which has strengthened its R&D capabilities over the years, is actively involved with DRDO as a ‘Development Partner’ for various missiles and underwater weapons programme. BDL has been nominated as the Prime Production Agency by DRDO under the Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme for Prithvi, Akash and Nag. Alongside, in the underwater weapons category, the Light Weight Torpedo and Heavy Weight Torpedo (Varunastra) are being manufactured under technical collaboration with NSTL.

The company is setting up new infrastructure for Surface-Mount Technology, High Performance Computing facility, Seeker Facility Centre, Warhead Production facility, High Temperature Carbon Composite and Environmental Testing Facility.

Among the new projects, BDL is involved as a Development-cum-Production partner for Smart Anti-Airfield Weapon System and Vertically Launched Short Range Surface to Air Missiles, with large business opportunities.
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New high strength Beta Titanium alloy developed by DMRL. Can help in reducing the weight of the Tejas MK1A and MK2 and various other products.

https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/other/dr ... d=msedgntp
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Who volunteers to watch BDL for its going to be a crucial bottleneck entity.
All these become vital for enabling production contracts
The company is setting up new infrastructure for Surface-Mount Technology, High Performance Computing facility, Seeker Facility Centre, Warhead Production facility, High Temperature Carbon Composite and Environmental Testing Facility.
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Wide range of topics covered must watch



DRDO - Developed Artillery Guns are Pride of the Country
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It has been 4 years and still we haven't lined up an engine for the AMCA. Presscon at AI 17.
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CM Yogi to inaugurate ISDA 2021 on July 28
Sunday, 25 July 2021 | PNS | Lucknow

https://www.dailypioneer.com/2021/state ... ly-28.html
Hoping to tap the huge base of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) in the state to become potential suppliers to the defence sector, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath will be virtually inaugurating the Indigenisation Summit on Defence and Aerospace (ISDA 2021) on July 28.

The HAL, DRDO, Bharat Electronics & Ordnance Equipment Factory, Kanpur would be conducting vendor development programmes during the four-day summit.”
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Came across INVESTMENT & PRECISION CASTINGS LTD, BHAVNAGAR, GUJARAT website..

Their brochure has got lot of items for defence and aerospace,,,,
https://ipcl.in/about.php?val=71&id=1


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https://pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1739949

quote: Total 41 AoNs worth Rs.86623.55 crore have been accorded to domestic vendors for capital acquisition since May, 2020.

For the impatient Brakshaks who keep on berating the government for not doing enough in the defense sector

We would all like to do much more and much faster but these things do take time
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MCEME, industry meet focuses on self reliance
Jul 26, 2021, 1:37 am IST
Deccan Chronicle.
The seminar focused on problems being faced by Indian Army and how industry could get clarity and collaborate with Army on solving these

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Lt Gen T. S. A. Narayanan, Commandant, MCEME, presenting a memento to Lt Gen Raj Shukla, GOC-in-C, ARTRAC, at the seminar organised on “Industry Interaction on Solutions for Problem Statements of Indian Army” at MCEME Auditorium, Secunderabad, on Saturday.


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OFB Dumdum is making the tail unit for the 500kg GP bomb

https://twitter.com/ofdc_pro/status/142 ... 45347?s=20

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https://swarajyamag.com/commentary/fabi ... y-in-india

#FabInIndia: An Exclusive Interview With Ajay Jalan Of Next Orbit Ventures On His Grand Ambitions To Establish A Semiconductor Fab Factory In India


Currently I am a managing partner at Next Orbit Ventures Funds (NOVF) that i also founded. NOVF has more than $3 billion target corpus in multiple funds.

On the critical need for India to establish a fab factory of its own. Let me start by saying that we as Indians need to be proactive rather than reactive on strategic areas like semiconductors.

Semiconductors have always been a much coveted commodity more so during the last 20 years since the dot-com era took off globally.

India tends to prefer a low resistance path, but in the knowledge-based industry, we need to build products to be competitive and self-reliant rather than providing services to others which we as a nation are doing since long.

Semiconductor industry is complex, high value, high demand and high risk, with long gestational business model. Creating national champions in this field requires political, commercial, social, techno nationalist outlook to converge backed with a long term vision.

Unfortunately, India has missed the bus in this critical area so far. I wish all of us, especially the government and policymakers, realise this soon. Else we as a nation will may have to reconcile to the model of 'buy and serve' others.

At a personal level, my ambition to establish a semiconductor fab in India is driven by the unfortunate fact that we are the only country of this size which does not have domestic chip manufacturing plant. For a country with big economic aspirations, it is critical to have its own fab to remain competitive in the tech world.


In 2006, I was part of a team that tried setting up a $3 billion semiconductor fab project in 1200 acres Fab City in a southern Indian state.

I also had the privilege of being a part of a group that formulated India's first semiconductor fab incentive policy, fab manufacturing and developing 1200 acres of Fab city for ESDM ecosystem. I was closely involved with creation of Indian Semiconductor Association (ISA) which is currently known as Indian Electronics & Semiconductor Association (IESA). The basic premise was to build a public-private partnership business model for the semiconductor ecosystem in India.
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Lots of bokwas. All these hi-tech folks talk like they are masters of the universe.
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BIOMASS AND BIORESOURCE :
TECHNOLOGIES FOR SELF-RELIANCE

DRDO technology focus
Vol 29 | Issue 4 | August 2021 | ISSN No. 0971 - 4413
https://www.drdo.gov.in/sites/default/f ... ust-21.pdf

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DRDO SUCCESSFULLY FLIGHT-TESTS SURFACE-TO-AIR MISSILE AKASH-NG
DRDO Indigenously Develops High Strength Beta Titanium Alloy on Industrial Scale
DRDO’s Short Span Bridging System-10 m Inducted into Indian Army
DRDO Successfully Flight Tests New Generation Agni P Ballistic Missile
DRDO Successfully Test Fires Enhanced Range 122 mm Caliber Rocket
DMRL Develops Advanced Materials for High Power Microwave Devices in Defence Applications

AUGUST 2021 | VOLUME 41 | ISSUE 8
DRDO NEWS LETTER
https://www.drdo.gov.in/sites/default/f ... or-web.pdf
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Hyderabad: New Director-General for DRDO missiles unit Hans News Service | 31 July 2021 1:58 AM IST

https://www.thehansindia.com/news/citie ... nit-699017
Dr BHVS Narayana Murthy, Distinguished Scientist and Director, RCI has been appointed as DG, MSS, DRDO, Hyderabad.

Dr Murthy is the chief architect of advanced onboard computer (OBC) technologies for missile systems and other defence applications. And also led the development of advanced Avionics for 'Mission Shakti', India's first anti-satellite missile test (A-SAT) and long-range missile Agni 5.

He also played a important role in the development and demonstration of avionics systems for BVRAAM Astra, QRSAM, Akash 1S, Akash NG, HSTDV, NGARM, long-range guided bombs, BrahMos, ATGM Nag, HELINA, MPATGM, SANT, BMD, ANSP, Agni series of missiles, and other guided weapon systems.7
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Legend Technologies Pvt. Ltd

As a leading supplier of tooling to Fixed Wing Military Aircraft, Helicopters, Transport Aircraft, , unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), M/s Legend Technologies which is enabling country’s Aerospace sector to improve reliability and enhance operational performance, now started focussing on the things that matter to the Country.
M/s Legend Technologies, Bengaluru has undertaken extensive study with the technologies and expertise available in the country and came out with the decision that Design and development of Two-Seater Indian Ultra-Light Helicopter (IULH) is very much feasible with the support and hand holding of all organizations.

Accordingly M/s Legend Technologies, Bengaluru has signed MoU with Govt of Karnataka for design, development and manufacturing of Two-seater Light Helicopter for Civil & Naval application in the presence of Honourable Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh on 05/02/2021 at Aero India Exhibition.
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Integrated Test Range (ITR), Chandipur is organised an international conference on Range Technology (IEEE ICORT-2021) from 5th to 6th Aug 2021 on virtual platform.

https://icort.in/

https://bigwire.in/2021/08/07/defence-e ... hnologies/

Defence experts brainstorm on Range technologies
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^^^. WRT, the light weight helicopter being designed by legend technology. Am trying to understand the following points.

What is the market size of the machine?

What is the use case for such a machine?

Is this an excercise in competence building?

What is the role this company has played till date as a partner for HAL.
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Pratyush wrote:...
What is the use case for such a machine?
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It might be kind of like the Robinson R22 of the US

Easy to maintain and much more easy on the wallet for use by flying clubs, essential services, forest national parks etc. Not to mention dramatic entry for corporate head honchos, film stars :D

Anyway it will help create a larger pool of Heli pilots to be available in the future. And export orders might help generate funds for larger products.

Now the R22 doesnt have as good a reputation as the bigger role-defined helis but it has sold well and some private companies are trying some juggad style development - Robinson helicopter tested as UAV for heavy lifts
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