Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated Bharat Dynamics Limited (BDL)‘s ₹44-crore warhead manufacturing facility for making current and futuristic missiles at the Bhanur unit on the city outskirts on Saturday. He also virtually launched an RF (radio frequency) Seeker facility, which has been established at its Kanchanbagh unit with an investment of ₹50 crore.
The RF Seeker facility is for production and testing of RF seekers useful for future missiles for target tracking. Seeker is a critical and technology intensive subsystem which will be used in all future missiles for target tracking.
Besides, the firm has begun to make KU Band Seekers facility to help in a complete indigenous vendor ecosystem in India, said BDL chairman and managing director Commodore Siddharth Mishra.
