Defence minister hands over DRDO systems to Armed Forces Chiefs

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Recently the defence Minister handed over three indigenously developed Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) systems to Army, Navy and Air Force at a function held in DRDO Bhawan.

What are those systems developed by DRDO?

The Raksha Mantri handed over the following systems

• Indian Maritime Situational Awareness System (IMSAS) to the Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Karambir Singh
• ASTRA Mk-I Missile to Air Chief Marshal Rakesh Kumar Singh Bhadauria and 
• Border Surveillance System (BOSS) to the Chief of Army Staff General MM Naravane. 

Border Surveillance System (BOSS)

• An all-weather electronic surveillance system successfully designed and developed by Instruments Research & Development Establishment (IRDE), Dehradun. 
• The system has been deployed at Ladakh border area for day and night surveillance.
• The system facilitates monitoring and surveillance by automatically detecting the intrusions in harsh high-altitude sub-zero temperature areas with remote operation capability. 
• The system is being produced by Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL), Machlipatnam.

Indian Maritime Situational Awareness System (IMSAS)

• The IMSAS is state-of-the-art, fully indigenous, high performance intelligent software system that provide Global Maritime Situational Picture, Marine planning tools and Analytical capabilities to Indian Navy. 
• The system provides Maritime Operational Picture from Naval HQ to each individual ship in sea to enable Naval Command and control (C2). 
• Centre for Artificial Intelligence & Robotics (CAIR), Bengaluru and Indian Navy has jointly conceptualised and developed the product and the BEL, Bengaluru has implemented it.

ASTRA Mk-I Missile 

• It is the indigenously developed first Beyond Visual Range (BVR) Missile, which can be launched from Sukhoi-30, Light Combat Aircraft (LCA), Mig-29 and Mig-29K. 
• Globally, very few countries have expertise and capabilities to design and produce this class of weapon system. 
• The successful development of ASTRA weapon system by Defence Research & Development Laboratory (DRDL) Hyderabad & production by Bharat Dynamics Limited (BDL), Hyderabad is a major contribution towards ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’.

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