30/07/2019
Indian missiles are placing India proudly into an elite league of defence forces having such technologies. Although India’s defence policy was promoting the world peace, it decided to be ready against any type of aggression. For this reason, India had to become self- reliant in modern war technology such as missiles. Thus, the Defence Ministry of India constituted Integrated Guided Missile Development programme (IGMDP) in 1983.
The main aim of this programme was to develop comprehensive missiles in between 1983 and 2007, thereby adding great weight to the Indian Defence capabilities. DRDO (Defence Research and Development Organization) started working with many other research centres to build strong Indian missiles technology.
Finally, it became successful in developing, designing and operationalizing five different categories of missile systems. They are as follows:
SHORT-RANGE SURFACE TO SURFACE MISSILE- PRITHVI
INTERMEDIATE-RANGE SURFACE TO SURFACE MISSILE- AGNI
SHORT-RANGE SURFACE TO