State-owned
Bharat Dynamics Limited (BDL) has launched two new products during Aero India- 2021 - the “Dishani” and “Garudastra”. At around 2.45 pm, BDL was trading at Rs341.10 per piece up 0.99% on Sensex. The stock has touched an intraday high of Rs344.05 per piece in early deals.
As per the regulatory filing, Garudastra is an advanced anti-submarine self-guided state of the art homing torpedo being designed and developed by NSTL, DRDO with BDL as the development partner.
Meanwhile, Dishani, an expendable air-deployed ASW sonobuoy system being designed and developed by NPOL, DRDO. BDL is the development partner for Dishani.
CMD, BDL, Commodore Siddharth Mishra, (Retd) stated “BDL, as a part of its Global Outreach, is endeavouring to forge alliance with foreign companies. In addition to forging alliance with domestic Companies, BDL is also encouraging startup companies to participate in its innovation programmes which would synergize their innovative ideas with BDL’s capabilities, infrastructure and long and rich experience in the field of manufacturing and develop new products for the Armed Forces utilizing emerging technologies.”
Furthermore, in Aero India 2021, the company has entered into Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)/agreements with foreign and Indian firms namely Naval Group, L&T MBDA Missile Systems Ltd, a Joint Venture between L&T and MBDA, Rafael Advanced Defence System Ltd (Naval Division), Thales, UK, Roxel, France, STE "SPETSTECHNOEXPORT", Ukraine, EMCO, Bulgaria, Bharat Forge Limited, Dhruva Space Pvt Ltd., Skyroot Aerospace Pvt Ltd., Analinear Design Technologies Pvt Ltd., Tonbo Imaging Indian Pvt Ltd. & Binford Research Labs Pvt Ltd.