JANUARY -
* DRDO Successfully Test Flight Test of New Generation AKASH NG Missile From Chandipur, Odisha.
FEBRUARY -
* DRDO Successfully Test Fired Trials Of High Speed Expandable Aerial Heat (HEAT) ABHYAS At Chandipur, Balasore.
MARCH -
* DRDO Conducted The Two Flights Test Of Very Short Range Air Defense System (VSHORADS) Missile In Chandipur Coast, Balasore, Odisha.
* DRDO Successfully Conducted The Maiden Trails Of Its High Endurance Autonomous Underwater Vehicle ( HEAUV) At Cochin Shipyard.
* DRDO Successfully Tested MISSION DIVYASTHRA, The FIRST Flight Test Of Indigenously Developed Agni 5 Missile From Abdul Kalam Island, Odisha.
( DRDO Successfully Launched AGNI 5 Which Is Multiple Independently Targetable Re-entry Vehicle (MIRV).)
( India Became The Sixth Country To Successfully Test The AGNI 5 With MIRV Technology In World After USA, UK, RUSSIA, CHINA And France.)
* R Sheena Rani, Who Lead The AGNI 5 (MIRV) Director At Advanced System Laboratory (ASL).
* DRDO Maiden Test Firing Of India's First Indigenously Made 1500 HP Engine For Main Battle Tank Held At BEML In Mysuru, Karnataka.
* DRDO Has Initiated Project ET-LDHCM To Create Advanced Oxidation Resistant And Thermal Barrier.
* Indian Army Successfully Test Fired BRAHMOS Supersonic Cruise Missile From Andaman And Nicobar Island.
* DRDO Successfully Tested New Generation Ballistic Missile Agni Prime At Abdul Kalam Island, Odisha.
* DRDO Successfully Conducted MPATGM Weapon System Development Trials At PFFR, Rajasthan.
( MPATGM - Man Portable Anti Tank Missile)
* DRDO Inaugurated The Submersible Platform For Acoustic Characterization And Evaluation (SPACE) At The Underwater Acoustic Research Facility In Kulamavu, Kerala For Testing The SONAR System For Indian Navy.
* DRDO Successfully Conducted Flight Test Of Indigenously Technology Cruise Missile (ITCM) From The Integrated Test Range, Chandipur, Odisha.
* DRDO And Strategic Forces Command Successfully Test Fired K-15 Submarine Launch Ballistic Missile From Bay Of Bengal.
LAUNCHED -
* Defense Materials And Stores Research And Development Establishment (DMSRDE, Kanpur Has Successfully Developed Indigenous Light Weight Bullet Proof Jacket (BPJ) For Protection Against Threat Level 6 Of BIS.
MAY -
* DRDO Has Successfully Tested Supersonic Missile Assisted Release Of Torpedo Anti Submarine Missile (SMART - ) From Abdul Kalam Island, Odisha.
* DRDO Handed Over 9 Defense Projects To IIT BHUBANESWAR.
* DRDO Successfully Flight Tested Indigenously Developed Air To Surface RudraM-II From Su-30 MK - 1 From Odisha Coast.
HOST -
* The 8th Technology Council Meeting Was Organized By Defense Research And Development Organization ( DRDO) In New Delhi
MOU SIGNED -
* DRDO And Center For Air Power Studies (CAPS) Signed MoU For The Studies, Academic Benefits, For Armed Forces.
APPOINTMENT -
* Government Of India Has Extended The Term Of DRDO Secretary, Samir V Kamat For One Year Till May 2025.
INAUGURATION -
* DRDO Chairman Dr Samir V Kamat Has Inaugurated An R & D Center At The Defense Research Laboratory In Changbu, In Tawang District In Arunachal Pradesh.
DEVELOPED -
* DMRDE In Collaboration With DRDO Has Developed The Liquid Ramjet Fuel For Advanced Air Breathing Engine.
* DRDO Has Developed Maritime Patrol Radar KSHITIJ And Nano Satellite For Hyper Spectral Imaging ( Manufactured By DATA PATTERNS)
JUNE -
* DRDO's Technology Development Fund (TDF) Has Awarded The Technology Development Contract For ULUAV To Sagar Defense Engineering.
* DRDO Has Handed Over The Medium Range Microwave Obscurant Chaff Rocket (MR-MOCR) To The Indian Navy.
DEVELOPED -
* DRDO Unveiled The Women Led Startup DIVYA DRISTHI, AI Tool For Personal Identification.
LAUNCHED -
* DRDO Successfully Completed 6th Consecutive Development Trials Of High Speed Expendable Aerial Target (HEAT) ABHYAS From The Integrated Test Center (ITC) Chandipur, Odisha Coast.
JULY -
* An MoU Signed Between DRDO And MP-IDSA To Conduct Joint Research Through Studies, Seminar , Conference etc.
* Made In India Developed By DRDO & L&T Introduced Zorawar (Light Tank) For INDIAN Army.
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* DRDO Partners With Bengaluru Based Firm For Induce NaviC Chip Development.
* DRDO Successfully Tested Fire Its Interceptor Missile From Abdul Kalam Island & Interceptor Prithvi-2 Nuclear Ballistic Missile From Chandipur, Odisha.
* DRDO Successfully Tested Fire The Made In India Man Portable Anti Tank Guided Missile ( MP- ATGM) At The Field Firing Range In Jaisalmer, Rajasthan.
* DRDO Carries Out Successful Maiden Flight Test Of LONG RANGE GLID BOMB ( LRGB) GAURAV From Su 30 MK -1 Platform Off Odisha Coast.
( Weight 1000 kg )
* DRDO Successfully Conducted a Night User Trial Of Nuclear Capable Ballistic Missile Prithvi-II From Odisha Coast. (Range 350 Km).
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PERSON PASSED AWAY -
* Renowned DRDO Missile Scientist Mr Ram Narain Agarwal Passed Away.
* He Was An Aerospace Scientist.
* Padmashri, And Padma Bhusan Awardee
( Known As Father Of Agni Missile)
( He Was First Programme Director Of Agni Missile in 1984)
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* DRDO And The Indian Navy Have Successfully Flight Tested Vertical Launch Short Range Surface To Air Missile (VL-SRSAM) From The Integrated Test Range Chandipur, Odisha Coast. ( ON 12TH SEPTEMBER 2024)
* DRDO And INDIAN Navy Successfully Tested Second The VLSRSAM At Odisha Coast.(13th September 2024)
* Strategic Forces Command Of INDIAN Army Has Successfully Conducted The Night Launch Of Nuclear Capable Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile AGNI-IV From Abdul Kalam Island Of Odisha Coast At Chandipur, Balasore.
( 4000 km Range Missile)
OCTOBER -
DEVELOPED -
* DRDO Has Developed a Range Of Software Defined Radios Available In Manpack, Shipborne, And Airborne
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LAUNCHED -
* DRDO Successfully Conducted 3 Flight Test Of Indigenous VSHORADS, 4th Generation Miniaturised Very Short Range Air Defense System From Pokharan, Rajasthan
* Cabinet Committee On Security (CSS) Has Given Clearance To The New Missile Test Range At Nagalayanka, Andhra Pradesh.
LOGO -
* DRDO Industry Academia Center Of Excellence, Launched It's New Logo
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NOVEMBER -
DEVELOPED -
* DRDL ( DRDO) Has Developed Indigenous ESM Modules ( Electronics Warfare Support Measures) Under Project SHYEN-22 For Do 228 Aircraft.
* SSPL, DRDO Lab Has Developed Indigenous Process For Growing And Manufacturing 4 Inch Diameter Silicon Carbide (SIC) Wafers And Fabricating Gallium Nitride (GaN).
* Bengaluru Based ASTROGATE LABS Developing Free Space LASER Communications For The Military Under DRDO.
* Indian Navy Inducted The Indigenously Designed And Developed Laser Ordnance Disposal System ( LORDS - N) From The DRDO.
LAUNCHED -
* DRDO Conducted A Maiden Flight Test Of Long Range Land Attack Cruise Missile ( LRLACM) Off Odisha Coast At ITR Chandipur
* It Is Developed By Aeronautical Development Establishment, Bengaluru With DRDO.
* DRDO Has Successfully Completed The Flight Test Of The Guided Pinaka Weapon System As a Part Of The Provisional Staff Qualitative Requirements (PSQR)
* DRDO Successfully Conducted The Flight Trails Of Long Range Hypersonic Missile on 16th November 2024 From APJ Abdul Kalam Island, Odisha.
( Range - 1500 km)
* DRDO Chief Dr Samir V Kamat Has Inaugurated The Photonics Chip Assembly And Integration Facility At IISC Bengaluru
* Garden Research Shipbuilders & Engineers (GRSE) , NSTL And DRDO Jointly Developed JALDOOT USV (Unmanned Surface Vessel) To Naval Science And Technological Laboratory (NSTL) At Vishakapatanam.
* Centre For Advanced System (CAS) DRDO Completed The 1000 Highly Complex Tests In Hypersonic Wind Tunnel ( HWT).
* DRDO & L&T Held The Steel Cutting Ceremony Of India's First Ever Indigenous Air Independent Propulsion (AIP) Module For KALVARI- Class Submarine ( INS - Kalvari).
RECEIVED -
* Mumbai Based MANASTU Space Has Handed Over It's Indigenous Green Propulsion System Technology To DRDO.
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MOU SIGNED -
* DRDO Has Signed A MoA ( Memorandum Of Agreement ) -
* For Development Of Indigenous Ballistic Material With Reliance Industries
* Limited Series Production Of Extreme Cold Weather Clothing With Aeronov Industrial Safety Appliances, Arnaf Industries, Arrow Garments.
* DRDO India, IIT Delhi And Industry Partner Have Signed A 10 Tripartite Agreement At The DIA- GARIMA Event.
* DRDO Has Successfully Completed The Final Experimental Test Of Solid Fuel Ducted Ramjet ( SFDR) Propulsion
2025 -
JANUARY -
* DRDO Has Successfully Conducted The Trials Of The C- Band LOS Datalink Onboard. HS125- 800 HAWKER Aircraft Under The DLAP Project.
* DRDO Developed HIMKAVACH Multi Layer Clothing System Designed For Temperature Range Of +20 degree C To -60 degree C
* Defense Research And Development Laboratory (DRDL) a Hyderabad Based Laboratory Of DRDO Has Developed The Long Duration Supersonic Combustion RAMJET OR SCRAMJET Powdered Hypersonic Technology.
TESTED -
* DRDO And Indian Army Have Successfully Field Evaluation Trials Of Indigenously Developed NAG MK 2 ( The 3td Generation ANTI TANK FIRE AND FORGET GUIDED MISSILE At Pokharan Range.
* DRDO Tested Air Droppable Container-150 (ADC-150) From P8I Aircraft Off The Coast Of Goa.
FEBRUARY -
LAUNCHED -
* DRDO SUCCESSFULLY Conducted The 3 Successive Flight Trails of Very Short Range Air Defense System (VSHORADS) From Chandipur, Odisha.
* DRDO And INDIAN Navy Successfully Conducted a Flight Trial Of First Of It's Kind Naval Anti Ship Missile (NASM-SR) From Integrated Test Range, Chandipur, Odisha.
DEVELOPED -
* DRDO Is Developing a PEMFC Based Fuel Cell Power Plant Along With HEAUV ( High Endurance AUTONOMOUS Under Water Vehicle)
* The Budget Allocated For DRDO Has Been Increased To 26,816.82 Crores For FY 2025/26.
* DRDO Is Developing An Indigenous 700HP Engine For FICV In Collaboration With Kirloskar And Ashok Leyland
MANUFACTURE -
* DRDO In Collaboration With IIT Hyderabad Unveiled The India's Largest Metal 3D Printing Machine For Rocket Components.
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MARCH -
* * DRDO Unveiled India's New Hypersonic Glide Vehicle (HGV) SRBM BM -04.
* DRDO Built Aerosol Lidar System Developed By IRDE, Handed Over To Mritunjay Mohapatra, Head Of Indian Meteorological Department.
CONDUCTED -
* The Defense Bio- Engineering & Electro Medical Laboratory (DEBEL) A Bengaluru Based Lab Under DRDO Successfully Conducted The High Altitude Trials Of Indigenous Onboard Oxygen Generating System (OBOGS)
* DRDO In Collaboration With Indian Navy Has Successfully Launched Vertically Launched Short Range Surface To Air Missile (VLSAR SAM) At Chandipur, Odisha.
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APRIL -
* * DRDO And Indian Army Conducted 4 Successfully Flight Of Army Version Of Medium Range Surface To Air Missile (MRSAM) At APJ ABDUL KALAM Island ODISHA.
* DRDO Successfully Conducted The Trials Of Long Range Glide Bomb GAURAV - from SU-30 MKI Aircraft.
* THE DRDO Announced The Successful Trial Of Mk-II(A) Laser - Directed Energy Weapon (DEW) System.
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* Indian Navy Tested BrahMos Missile (Multiple) At Arabian Sea.
MAY -
* DRDO Signed MoU with Centre For Land Warfare Studies ( CLAWS)
* DRDO Successfully Conducted The Maiden Flight Trials Of The Stratospheric Airship Platform Carrying An Instrumental Payload To 17km Altitude From The Sheopur (Madhya Pradesh)
EXTENTION -
* DRDO Chief Samir V Kamath Gets Another Year Extension.
TESTED -
* DRDO & Indian Navy Conducted A Combat Firing ( With Reduced Explosives) Of Indigenous Multi Influence Ground Mine (MIGM)
* Researchers At IIT MADRAS In Collaboration With IIT Jodhpur, iisc Bengaluru, IIT Hyderabad, ISRO And DRDO India Have Developed 3D Printed Incolen 718, a Nickel Based Super Alloy Used In Rocket Engine, And Jet Turbine
* DRDO Chairman Inaugurated The Centre For Electromagnetic Launch Technology (CEMaLT)
JUNE -
* BEML Has Inked Three Licencing Agreements With DRDO's VRDE Indigenously Produce Key Mobility And Support System For Indian Army ARMOURED Cops
* * DRDO & IIT Delhi Demonstrate The Quantum Entanglement Based Free Space Quantum Secure Communication Over More Than 1 Km Distance.
DEVELOPED -
* DRDO Has Developed India's First Photonics Radar.
JULY -
* DRDO And Indian Navy Has Successfully Trails Of Extended Range Anti Submarine Rocket (ERASR) By INS KAVARATTI
* DRDO And Indian Air Force Have Successfully Conducted The Flight Test Of Indigenous BVRAAM Astra Equipped With Indigenous Radio Frequency Seeker From Su 30- MK 1 From Odisha Coast On 11th July 2025.
* DRDO Successfully Tested A Next Generation HYPERSONIC Missile Under PROJECT VISHNU.
* DRDO Successfully Tested The Short Range Ballistic Missiles ( SRBMs) - PRITHVI -II And AGNI -1 From Abdul Kalam Island, Odisha Coast.
* DRDO Conducted Twin Trials Of PRALAY Ballistic Missiles ( Range 500 Km) At Odisha Coast. ( 28TH & 29TH JULY 2025)
DEVELOPED -
* DRDL, DRDO And AIIMS Bibi Nagar Jointly Developed A First In India Carbon Fibre Foot Prosthesis - ADIDOC
MOU SIGNED -
* DRDO Handed Over 6 Strategic Indigenously Designed And Developed Production AGAINST NSQR To The Indian Navy
* DRDO Has Successfully Conducted The Flight Trails Of UAV Launched Precision Guided Missile ( ULPGM- V3 IN The National Open Area Range (NOAR) In Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh.
AUGUST -
* DRDO Successfully Test Fires The AGNI -5 Ballistic Missiles ( Range Upto 5000 km) At Odisha Coast.
* * DRDO Has Successfully Conducted The Maiden Flight Test Of Integrated Air Defence Weapon System ( IADWS) On 23rd August 2025 At Odisha Coast.
( IADWS - It Is a Multi-layered Air Defense System Comprising Of Indigenous Quick Reaction Surface To Air Missile ( QRSAM), Advanced Very Short Range Air Defense System ( VSHORADS) Missile And High Power Laser Based Directed Energy Weapon ( DEW)
* IADWS Is a Part Of SUDARSHAN CHAKRA Mission
* DRDO - HEMRL Has Successfully Developed The Signal Star Naval Flare For The Kalavari - Class Submarine Of The Indian Navy.
SEPTEMBER -
* Solar Energy Corporation Of India (SECI) And DRDO National Solar Mission Signed MoU For Net Zero CARBON.
TESTED -
* DRDO IN COLLABORATION WITH THE STRATEGIC FORCE COMMAND SUCCESSFULLY TESTED THE INTERMEDIATE RANGE BALLISTIC MISSILE AGNI - PRIME on 24th SEPTEMBER 2025.
HOST -
* DRDO CONDUCTED PRATIBIMB 2025 Seminar On Perception Management & Narrative's In Era Of Information Warfare
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AWARDS -
* DRDO Wins The Hindu Business Lines Change maker Of The Year Awards 2025.
OCTOBER -
* LAUNCHED -
* DRDO In Collaboration With The Integrated Defence And Tri Services Released Indian Radio Software Architecture (IRSA) Standard 1.0
* DRDO And Solar Energy Corporation Of India (SECI) Have Signed MoU To Develop The 300 MW Capacity Of Solar Based Renewable Energy Projects.
* GRSE AND DRDO Has Laid The Keel For The Acoustic Research Ship For Naval Physical And Oceanography Laboratory.
TESTED -
* * DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ORGANISATION (DRDO) CVRDE, SUCCESSFULLY DEMONSTRATE THE ANTI TANK GUIDED MISSILE ( Nag MKII)
* DRDO Has Conducted The Maiden Flight Of Indigenous Archer NG MALE UAV
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NOVEMBER -
* IIT KANPUR Unveiled The Stealth UAV Scale Model To Used To DRDO
TESTED -
* * DRDO SUCCESSFULLY DEVELOPED A NEW GENERATION OF MAN PORTABLE AUTONOMOUS UNDER WATER VEHICLE ( MP- AUVs)
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DECEMBER -
* DRDO SUCCESSFULLY Conducted The High Speed Rocket Sled Test Of Fighter Aircraft Escape System At Rail Track Rocket Sled ( RTRS) Facility Of The Terminal Ballistic Research Laboratory ( TBRL) Chandigarh.
* DRDO Handed Over The 7 Technologies Developed Under Fund Scheme To The Armed Forces
2026 -
JANUARY -
* * DRDO SUCCESSFULLY TESTED THE SALVO LAUNCH OF TWO PRALAY MISSILE IN ODISHA COAST AT CHANDIPUR, ON 31ST DECEMBER 2025
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* DRDO SUCCESSFULLY TESTED THE 3RD GENERATION OF FIRE & FORGET MAN PORTABLE ANTI TANK GUIDED MISSILE ( MPATGM)
DEVELOPED -
* DRDO Develops Portable Water Purification System ( SWaDeS ) For Soldiers ( Defence Laboratory Jodhpur, DRDO)
* DRDO Unveiled A New High Power Microwave ( HPM) SYSTEM, Under Development To Defeats SWARMS Of Unmanned Aircraft System ( UASs) Prototype
AWARDS -
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* Miranda House, Delhi In Collaboration With DRDO Has Developed a Prototype BioFET Sensor For Early Cardiac Arrest - Risk Detection.
FEBRUARY -
TESTED -
* * ON 3RD FEBRUARY 2026, DRDO SUCCESSFULLY TESTED THE DEMONSTRATED OF ITS SOLID FUEL DUCTED RAMJET ( SFDR) TECHNOLOGY FROM INTEGRATED TEST RANGE (ITR), CHANDIPUR, BALASORE ODISHA.
* DIPAS, DRDO And IIT Ropar SIGNED A MoU For Academic Research
* DRDO CONDUCTED The Qualification Test For Gaganyaan Drogue Parachute.
* * ON 27TH FEBRUARY 2026, DRDO SUCCESSFULLY TESTED THREE CONSECUTIVE THE FLIGHT TRIALS OF VERY SHORT RANGE AIR DEFENSE SYSTEM (VSHORADS) FROM INTEGRATED TEST RANGE AT CHANDIPUR, ODISHA.
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MARCH -
* DRDO Pune Based Lab And DIAT Have Developed Indigenous Tactile Sensor Arrays For Advanced Robotics Application.
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APRIL -
BOOKS -
* THE UNPRECEDENTED Success Story' Of The First Indigenous Supersonic Multi Target Surface To Air - Missile System AKASH Book Author - Missile Scientist Dr G Chandramauli ) ( Authored By Padmashree Dr Prahalad Rama Rao)
* DRDO Handed Over The AI Based Satellite Imaging System PRAJANA - ( Developed By CAIR) To Ministry Of Home Affairs.
VIKRAM VT-21 -
* DRDO Chairman Samir V Kamat Has Flagged Off The Advanced Armoured Platform ( Tracked And Wheeled) VIKRAM VT-21
NASM-SR -
* * DRDO And Indian Navy Successfully Conducted The Maiden Salvo Launch Of Naval Anti Ship Missile Short Range (NASM -SR) From Indian Navy Helicopter, At Cost Of Bay Of BENGAL, Odisha
* DRDO Has Became The Historical Milestone To Indigenous Galium Nitride (GaN) Chips For Defence, ( Became 7th COUNTRY To In Elite Group)
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MAY -
* DRDO SUCCESSFULLY TESTED The Phase -2 2 Stage Hypersonic Glide Vehicle, Long Range Anti Ship Hypersonic Missile ( LR - AShM) From Odisha Coast
* DRDO Has Inaugurated The CBRN Field Training And Demonstration Centre At Burari Plans, Delhi.
JUNE -
* DRDO SUCCESSFULLY Tested The High Calibre Bomb In Haryana
