India Completely "Atmanirbhar'' In Missile Technology, Says DRDO Chairman
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Speaking at an online event hosted by JNU, he asserted that if a country has to become ''Atmanirbhar'', "we need to work on advanced technology"
India has achieved "complete self-reliance" in missile technology and the most advanced missiles can now be developed in the country, DRDO chairman G Satheesh Reddy said today.
Delivering a lecture during an online event hosted by the JNU, he also asserted that if a country has to become prosperous and ''Atmanirbhar'' (self-reliant), "we need to work on advanced technology" and that is where the role of academic institutions will come in a "big way".
Mr Reddy recalled the decades of 1980s and 90s in the evolution of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and hailed the role of scientists, including former president APJ Abdul Kalam, known as the ''Missile Man'' of India, who worked on missile technologies that provided a "quantum jump" in development of advanced systems and platforms.
He mentioned the five missiles -- Prithvi, Agni, Akash, Trishul Nag -- developed by India under the Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme (IGMDP).
