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Autonomous vehicles on top for India’s DRDO

Issue No. 7-8 | April 01-30, 2012

The star attractions at Defexpo 2012 by India’s Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) was its brand-new missile interceptor simulator and a 3D virtual reality theatre, but the organisation has placed special focus on autonomous vehicles this year. For the first time, DRDO put on display MUNTRA, an unmanned tracked ground vehicle, a platform that the Army is greatly interested in for operations in a nuclear-biological-chemical environment, surveillance and mine clearance. The DRDO is in discussions with the Army to finalise all contours of the $100-million programme soon. Remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Daksh was featured after a high-profile showing in 2010. On January 31 this year, the first batch of five Daksh ROVs entered operational service with the Army.