Dispute centers on tender dated 17 Dec, 2025, issued by NSTL/DRDO, for development and supply of 7 units of Processor-Based Moored Mine - Next Generation (PBMM-NG), warhead shells, test systems, and technical services.
This opens up a market worth several thousand crores while allowing defence ministry to diversify and speed up production at a time when armed forces are looking to build missile stock.
When Kalam was teaching at Anna University in 2001, students would wait outside his guest house every morning, eager to ask him questions during his morning walk.
Airbus will carry out major structural modifications on the six A321s before DRDO & its partners integrate the indigenous mission systems, with first aircraft expected by 2031-32.
Besides the interceptors, the critical element of BMD are its radars, initially procured from Israel in the mid-2000s and later developed by DRDO on its own with greater capability.
With MIRV, India can target different different locations or the same location with a time gap. This can include decoys to hoodwink the enemy’s defence systems.
The coming years will test India’s defence industry like never before. Success will depend on collaboration between DRDO, ADA, HAL, private firms, and international partners.
Repeated changes in cotton import duty have prioritised textile competitiveness when mills face high input costs. But policy can also put pressure on farmgate prices.
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