After the Philipines agreed to purchase BrahMos cruise missile worth $375 million from India in anti-ship configration, the Department of Defence Research and Development Secretary and Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) Chairman, Dr G Satheesh Reddy has said many countries are now interested in the surface-to-air missiles and more systems with export potential are being developed in the country.
“Surface to air missile Akash, Astra missile, anti-tank missiles, radars, torpedoes have gained the interest of various nations. Lot more systems are being developed which are advanced technology in nature and have export potential,” Reddy told ANI.
Dr Reddy is confident that in the coming years, India will see an increase in the export of indigenously developed weapons technologies and said, “In the coming year, we will have a lot of exports from India of the technologies developed here.”
Such confident statement comes from India comes just after India signed a deal worth $375 million to supply 290 km strike range BrahMos supersonic cruise missile to the Philippines and Dr Reddy called the export of the BrahMos missile system as a “major development.”
“BrahMos is a giant venture of DRDO. This giant venture has developed the supersonic cruise missile ‘BrahMos’. It has been inducted into the Indian Armed Forces. It is the beginning and we expect that many more export orders will come in the future,” he added.
The head of DRDO said his aim is in line with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision of developing advanced technologies indigenously, and added, “PM Modi has been setting goals on developing very advanced technologies and systems and we should be exporting a lot to the world. So, there are many systems that are being developed which have a lot of export potential.”
Click here to subscribe to The Commune on Telegram and get the best stories of the day delivered to you personally.