DRDO Develops Lightweight Bullet-Proof Jacket For Indian Army DRDO Develops Lightweight Bullet-Proof Jacket For Indian Army Kanpur-based Defence Materials and Stores Research and Development Establishment (DMSRDE), has developed this jacket, a ministry statement said.
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh congratulated the DRDO and its lab for developing the new jacket.
New Delhi:
The DRDO has developed a lightweight bullet-proof jacket that weighs 9 kg and meets the qualitative requirements of the Indian Army, the defence ministry said on Thursday.
Kanpur-based Defence Materials and Stores Research and Development Establishment (DMSRDE), which is one of the laboratories of the government-run Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), has developed this jacket, a ministry statement said.
The DRDO has developed a lightweight bullet-proof jacket that weighs nine kg and meets the qualitative requirements of the Indian Army, the defence ministry said on Thursday. Kanpur-based Defence Materials and Stores Research and Development Establishment (DMSRDE), which is one of the laboratories of the government-run Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), has developed this jacket, a ministry statement said. The front hard armour panel bullet proof jacket was tested at Terminal Ballistics Research Lab in Chandigarh and it met relevant standards of the BIS (Bureau of Indian Standards), the statement said. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh congratulated the DRDO and its lab DMSRDE for developing the new jacket.