Bharat Dynamics Limited (BDL) is one of

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's manufacturers of

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s and

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systems. It was founded in 1970 in

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. BDL has been working in collaboration with the

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and foreign original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) for manufacturing and suppling various missiles and allied equipment to

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. The company began by producing a first generation

anti-tank guided missile An anti-tank guided missile (ATGM), anti-tank missile, anti-tank guided weapon (ATGW) or anti-armor guided weapon is a guided missile primarily designed to hit and destroy heavily armored military vehicles. ATGMs range in size from shoulde ...

— the French SS11B1. While fulfilling its basic role as a weapons system manufacturer, BDL has built up in-house research and development capabilities, primarily focusing on design and engineering activities. BDL has three manufacturing units, located at

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; Bhanur,

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, and

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. Two new units are planned at Ibrahimpatnam, Ranga Reddy district, Telangana and

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History

India began to develop indigenous missiles through the Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme (IGMDP), which gave BDL an opportunity to be closely involved with the programme wherein it was identified as the prime production agency. This opened up a plethora of opportunities to assimilate advanced manufacturing and programme management technologies and skills. Responding to the concurrent engineering approaches adopted by the

(DRDO) in the Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme (IGMDP), BDL was seen as a reliable and trust worthy partner, and resulted in the induction of India's first state-of-the-art

surface-to-surface missile A surface-to-surface missile (SSM) is a missile designed to be launched from the ground or the sea and strike targets on land or at sea. They may be fired from hand-held or vehicle mounted devices, from fixed installations, or from a ship. They ar ...

Prithvi Prithvi (Sanskrit: पृथ्वी, ', also पृथिवी, ', "the Vast One", also rendered Pṛthvī Mātā), is the Sanskrit name for the earth, as well as the name of the goddess-personification of it in Hinduism. The goddess Prit ...

''. BDL has delivered Prithvi to the three services as per requirements. BDL has forayed into the field of under water weapon systems and air-to-air missiles and associated equipment with technology support from the DRDO and other players in this domain.

Operations

BDL has been consistently incurring profits and has been nominated as a Mini Ratna – Category-I Company by the

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. Showing steady progress in its operations over the years, BDL achieved a record sales turnover of ₹1,075

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in 2012–13. BDL has orders worth over ₹1,800 crore. Keeping pace with the modernisation of the

, BDL is poised to enter new avenues of manufacturing covering a wide range of weapon systems such as:

surface-to-air missiles A surface-to-air missile (SAM), also known as a ground-to-air missile (GTAM) or surface-to-air guided weapon (SAGW), is a missile designed to be launched from the ground or the sea to destroy aircraft or other missiles. It is one type of anti-a ...

, air defence systems, heavy weight

torpedoes A modern torpedo is an underwater ranged weapon launched above or below the water surface, self-propelled towards a target, with an explosive warhead designed to detonate either on contact with or in proximity to the target. Historically, such ...

air-to-air missiles An air-to-air missile (AAM) is a missile fired from an aircraft for the purpose of destroying another aircraft (including unmanned aircraft such as cruise missiles). AAMs are typically powered by one or more rocket motors, usually solid-fuel roc ...

, making it a defence equipment manufacturer. BDL has also entered into the arena of refurbishment of old missiles.

Products and services

Indigenous missiles

BDL is the nodal agency for the production of missiles developed by India. The first such missile that entered production of dynamics with BDL was the Prithvi missile. BDL manufactures a range of

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for the

some prominent products are listed below: *

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In 1998, BDL produced Agni-I were inducted into the Indian Armed Forces. BDL also manufactures other missiles and systems for the Indian Armed Forces * Akash Akash (

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: आकाश Ākāś ''"Sky"'') is a medium-range

surface-to-air missile A surface-to-air missile (SAM), also known as a ground-to-air missile (GTAM) or surface-to-air guided weapon (SAGW), is a missile designed to be launched from the ground or the sea to destroy aircraft or other missiles. It is one type of anti-ai ...

defence system developed by the

(

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), and supported by

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and Bharat Electronics (BEL) in

.AkashSAM.com
The missile system can target aircraft up to 30 km away, at altitudes up to 18,000 m. A pre-fragmented warhead could potentially give the missile the capability to destroy both aircraft and warheads from ballistic missiles. It is in operational service with the

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and the

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. *Advanced Light Weight

Torpedo A modern torpedo is an underwater ranged weapon launched above or below the water surface, self-propelled towards a target, with an explosive warhead designed to detonate either on contact with or in proximity to the target. Historically, such ...

It can be launched from a Ship, Helicopter, or Submarine and is available as both war shot/exercise modes. Homing can be passive/active/mixed modes. It has multiple search pattern capabilities. *Counter Measures Dispensing Systems Counter Measures Dispensing System (CMDS) is a chaff and flare dispensing system. CMDS is an airborne defensive system providing self-protection to the aircraft by passive ECM against radar-guided and IR-seeking, air and ground-launched missiles. Protection to the aircraft is achieved by misguiding the missiles by dispensing chaff, and/or flare payloads. *

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2T This is a second-generation, semi-automatic, tube-launched, optically tracked missile with a tandem warhead. * Konkurs – M This is a second-generation, semi-automatic, antitank, tube-launched, optically tracked, wire-guided and aero-dynamically controlled missile. It is designed to destroy moving and stationary armoured targets with explosives reactive armour at a range of 75 to 4000 metres. Salient Features: Can be launched either from the

BMP-2 The BMP-2 (''Boyevaya Mashina Pekhoty'', , literally "combat machine/vehicle f theinfantry") is an amphibious infantry fighting vehicle introduced in the 1980s in the Soviet Union, following on from the BMP-1 of the 1960s. Development his ...

or from the ground launcher. tandem warhead simple in operation and immune to Electronic Countermeasures High hit and kill probability Portable and Para droppable. Hermetically sealed ensuring long storage life. *Invar Invar is a weapon fired from the gun barrel of a

T-90 The T-90 is a third-generation Russian main battle tank developed from, and designed to replace the T-72. It uses a 125mm 2A46 smoothbore main gun, the 1A45T fire-control system, an upgraded engine, and gunner's thermal sight. Standard p ...

Tank. The missile has a semi-automatic control system, tele-orienting in the laser beam. This is a high-velocity jamming immune missile with a tandem warhead designed to defeat explosive

reactive armour Reactive armour is a type of vehicle armour used in protecting vehicles, especially modern tanks, against shaped charges and hardened kinetic energy penetrators. The most common type is ''explosive reactive armour'' (ERA), but variants include ...

. Intended to destroy stationary and moving targets with speeds up to 70 km/h.

References

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