HONING OUR DEFENCES

For nearly six decades now, DRDO has helped the country fulfil its mission of self-reliance and improve its indigenous defence capabilities

- Pradip R. Sagar

The seeds of defence R&D in India were sown by eminent theoretical physicist D.S. Kothari, also our first scientific advisor. The Defence Service Organ­isation he founded in 1948 was to become the DRDO (Defence Research and Development Organisation) in 10 years, in association with several technical development establishme­ nts. From a primarily advisory role in operations research, ballistics, wea­ pons evaluation, physiology, food and