India has become the first country to demonstrate the capability of engaging four aerial targets simultaneously at 25 km ranges by command guidance using a single firing unit with the recent firing of the ‘Akash’ missile by the Indian Air Force (IAF) earlier this week on January 12, claimed Bharat Dynamics Limited (BDL) chairman and managing director, Commodore A. Madhavarao.
The Akash missiles test-fired by the DRDO have been manufactured by BDL at its Kanchanbagh facility here including the state-of-the-art radio frequency seeker. At BDL, the focus is always on ‘Make in India’ with maximum indigenous content, he asserted on Sunday.
The CMD was speaking at a function where Union Minister of State for Defence Ajay Bhatt flagged off the indigenously developed and manufactured Astra missiles for supply to the IAF at the Kanchanbagh unit, in the presence of DRDO DG-missiles & strategic systems U.Raja Babu and other senior officials.
