Union Minister for Defence Arun Jaitley with the model of LRSAM at BDL in Hyderabad on Sunday. Secretary, Defence Production, Ashok Kumar Gupta, Vice-Admiral Karambir Singh Vice-Chief of the Naval Staff and others are also seen. Union Defence Minister Arun Jaitley performed the ground-breaking ceremony on Sunday. The Astra weapon system is indigenously developed air-to-air beyond the visual range missile developed by the DRDO. He visited the Mishra Dhatu Nigam (MIDHANI) here, another Defence public sector unit, and inspected the facilities there.

Source: The Hindu August 28, 2017 04:30 UTC