Industry must invest big money and show interest in developing aerospace products and help the armed forces to leapfrog into new war technologies, the country’s topmost defence scientist, Vijay Kumar Saraswat, said on Monday.
Current investments from the private sector in home-grown defence hardware, according to him, are tepid and ‘sub-critical.’
“We are looking at a new era of technologies and augmenting our manufacturing capabilities. The civil aviation sector has not taken military requirements as its own and that is the problem,” Dr. Saraswat, who heads the Defence Research and Development Organisation, and is the Scientific Adviser to the Defence Minister, said.
He was addressing over 1,000 delegates to the technical session of the two-yearly seminar that accompanies the Aero India show. The air show is to be held at the Yelahanka airbase from February 6 to 10.
05/02/13 The Hindu
