DRDO to invest Rs 1,000 crore in 'aviation hub' Hyderabad

Chennai/Hyderabad: State-owned Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) will be spending around Rs 1,000 crore on development activities in and around Hyderabad over the next five years.
“About Rs 650 crore will be invested for augmenting the missile manufacturing programme, while Rs 350 crore will go into developing a hypersonic wind tunnel for testing scram jet engine, which will be six times faster than sound velocity,” scientific adviser to the defence ministry and DRDO director-general VK Saraswat, told mediaperons here on Wednesday.
The remaining amount will be infused into three sanctioned programmes by DRDO, he said.
The missile manufacturing capacity expansion programme has been jointly taken up with another defence establishment Bharat Dynamics Limited.
“Scram jet engine was tested for 20 seconds duration and a flight test is expected sometime next year,” he said.
Replying to a query on the Regional Transport Aircraft (RTA-70) programme, Saraswat said a project report was in the making and was expected to be completed by 2011.
18/11/10 Business Standard

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