Guided Missiles DRDO

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Guided Missiles

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Published 1990

Dr S S Murthy Smt A S Balasubra~nanian A L Moorthy Smt Anuradha Ravi S S Bagga Ashok Kumar S B Gupta Babulal Prasad

Guided Missiles

T V Karthikeyan A K Kapoor Scientists Defence Research 8- Development I..aboratory I-Iyderahad

l)elkr~cpScientific Infornlation & Doc.umentation Centre. (DESI DOC:) Defence Research & Developnleru O ~ ~ ~ ~ i s a t i o n Ministry of I)cfence, Metcalfe Iiousc, Dcilli 1 1 0 05.1

Foreword I am clelightecl that Shri T V Karthikeyan and Shri AK Kapoor have brought out a small booklet on guided missiles. Their importance to the Armed Forces has significantly increased. Guided missiles are used for air, land and sea warfare. Frorn the giants of the ICBM class to the midgets such as shoulder-fired weapons, they are used m a multitude of roles. India has heen one uf the earliest countries to make and use iv;ir rockets. Though these were used in the early r i g h t e e ~ ~ tcentury, h it is only in the 1980s that the c.ount1.yentered in a big way the area of guided missile tleveloptnent i ~ t i c lproduction. Several of the country's acatlcrnic iristitutions, laboratories, private and public sector ii~clustt-iesarid user services have cotne together arid are working hand in hand in the development of nlissilr technology i r l an endeavour to make the countr!. self'-sufficient in this vital area. This imok '(;uidecl \Iissiles' \