DRDO chief Dr VK Saraswat inaugurates Microwave Tube Facility at BEL

Bangalore: Dr Vijay K Saraswat, scientific adviser to the defence minister, director general of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) inaugurated the newly established JC Bose Microwave Tube Facility of the Microwave Tube R&D Centre in Bangalore.

The JC Bose Facility is an integrated microwave tube development unit that houses state-of-art precision fabrication machines, high-voltage test facilities, environment test facilities and High-Power Microwave (HPM) generation and diagnostics facilities.

The Microwave Tube R&D Centre (MTRDC), co-located at BEL, Bangalore is a constituent laboratory of DRDO and carries out frontline research on microwave tubes for defence applications of radars and electronic warfare systems.

One of the latest products of MTRDC, a MPM produced by Bharat Electronics was handed over to the programme director (Akash). It is significant that the first FLR System is rolling out from BEL with this MPM.

Top brass officials like the chief controllers of R&D, DRDO, W Selvamurthy and KD Nayak were present.

In his address to the scientists and technologists of the Centre, Dr Saraswat said that the MPM produced for FLR system is a perfect example of BEL-DRDO synergy. He stated that DRDO should initiate the work on VMED and HPM DEW to meet the futuristic requirement of services.

HS Bhadoria, director, BEL, Bangalore in his address assured all the support to DRDO for producing the products developed by DRDO.