Indian Army Chief Confident of Winning Next War through DRDO-Prepared Indigenized Weapons

New Delhi, October 15, 2019:

Indian Army Chief General Bipin Rawat on Tuesday said that the next war will be fought and won through indigenized weapons systems and equipment after the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) made advances in ensuring that requirement of the country's defence services are met through home-grown solutions.

General Bipin Rawat said, “We are confident that we’ll fight and win the next war through indigenized weapons systems and equipment as the DRDO has made advances in ensuring that requirement of the country's defence services is met through home-grown solutions.”

Rawat added that the Defence industry of India is a budding industry and its high time to look at the development of systems for future warfare and start preparing for ‘non-contact warfare’.

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General Rawat also stressed on the development of cyber, space technology, laser, electronic warfare and robotics.

DRDO is an agency of the Government of India, charged with the military's research and development, headquartered in New Delhi, India. It was formed in 1958 by the merger of the Technical Development Establishment and the Directorate of Technical Development and Production of the Indian Ordnance Factories with the Defence Science Organisation. It is under the administrative control of the Ministry of Defence, Government of India.

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