Defense research and development organisation (DRDO)

Establishment success vision mission details

Defense research and development organisation (DRDO)

Establishment success vision mission details

Defense research and development organisation (DRDO) is an agency under the ministry of defence. It's headquarters in New Delhi. If was started in 1958 by amalgamation Defense science organisation (DSO). At this time DRDO was working in Technical development for India Army and Directorate of technical development & production with defence science organisation.

After some time DRDO and DSO

Combined into a single company which name is DRDO.

At this time DRDO started with 10 laboratories . Now a days DRDO has 52 laboratories which is deeply engaged in development of defence equipment covering in field of Aeronautics, Armaments, electronic ,combat vehicle, engineering systems, instruments, missile, advanced drones etc are already made by DRDO in modern advanced technology. Which is more beneficial for Indian Army.

Presently, DRDO has 5000 scientists and about 25,000 other scientific team for technical support.

Vision

Empowering the nation with state of the art indigenous defence technologies and systems.

Mission

Design, development and lead production state of the art weapons systems, platforms and allied equipment for our defence service.

Provide technical solutions to the service to optimise combat effectiveness and to promote well-being of troops.

Development infrastructure and committed for quality manpower and build strong indigenous technology buse.

Success

Short- range surface to surface ballistic missile is -- prithvi

Intermediate range surface to surface ballistic missile is -- Agni

Medium range surface to air missile is -- Akash

Short range surface to air missile is -- Trishul

Third generation anti-tank missile is -- Nag

Super sonic cruise missile is -- Brahmos

Submirine launcher Ballistic missile is -- Sagarika

Submirine nuclear capable missile is -- Saurya

Sea based , short range liquid propellant Ballistic missile is -- Dhanush

Beyond visual range air to air missile is -- Astra

Best milestone person of DRDO

DR DS Kothari

SA to RM and DG DRDO

(12.07.1948 – 18.03.1961)

Prof. S Bhagavantham

SA to RM and DG DRDO

(01.07.1961 – 13.10.1969)

Dr BD Nagchaudhuri

SA to RM & DG DRDO

(01.07.1970 – 01.07.1974)

Prof. MGK Menon

SA to RM & DG DRDO

[17.08.1974 – 10.07.1978]

Dr Raja Ramanna

SA to RM & DG DRDO

[10.07.1978 – 15.02.1982]

Dr VS Arunachalam