DRDO focusing on 'non-contact' warfare | VK Saraswat

The Defence Research andDevelopment Organisation (DRDO) is focusing on the futuristic'non-contact warfare' concept, for which it is working on newarmament technologies like the Indian Unmanned Strike Air Vehicle(IUSAV) and Unmanned Main Battle Tank (UMBT), DRDO chief VK Saraswatsaid here on Saturday. "Future war is going to benon-contact warfare, where the soldiers coming into physical contactwith the adversary is going to be lesser. There will be more use ofrobotics to hit the enemy with minimal casualties. The IUSAV and UMBTare the futuristic requirements for our Armed Forces," Saraswat,who is the Director General of DRDO and Scientific Advisor to DefenceMinister, said. The IUSAV, currently in design stage,is an advanced unmanned stealth aerial vehicle which would conductsurveillance, deliver weapons and come back. It would be controlledfrom a remote location from the actual site of action, withoutgetting detected by enemy radar.

"This unmanned vehicle will bepowered by our Kaveri engine. We have plans for modified unmannedground vehicles. We have the Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) Daksh,which currently has ground surveillance features and would havede-mining facilities and a gun fitted onto it," he said. He further said that the DRDO was alsoplanning an UMBT on similar lines of IUSAV and ROV Daksh, "We are also developing theimproved version of indigenously built MBT Arjun which is being namedas MBT MK-II, having better gun control system, improved thermalsighting system, better display system for the tank commander andoperator," the DRDO DG said.

He was speaking on the sidelines of thevaledictory function of Post Induction Training School (POINTS)-17,an initiative of DRDO to impart integrated training to the newlyinducted scientists at DIAT (Deemed University), Girinagar, Pune.
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