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The Combat Vehicles Research & Development Establishment (CVRDE) of the Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO), Ministry of Defense, Government of India is currently working on the development of an Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV), a new concept in military operations. P. Sivakumar, Director, CVRDE says that the UGV would be capable of carrying out surveillance and mine detection, besides operating in nuclear and bio-chemical area. All trials have been completed and they have asked the Army what it wants, he said. DRDO is also in the process of developing indigenous technology for Army tanks, repair vehicles and surveillance. One of the semi-indigenous equipments developed recently by the DRDO is the Arjun Catapult, a self-propelled gun which can fire an object at a distance of 27 km. This has been developed by integrating an imported Russian gun on the chassis of the Arjun Main Battle Tank (MBT) Mark-I. Forty such guns are to be developed by the DRDO, he said. The DRDO has also developed a totally indigenous Carrier Command Post Track (CCPT) vehicle which provides details about a firing operation. Work is to be commenced soon on an indigenous Armoured Repair and Recovery Vehicle (ARRV) which is to be developed in association with the Bharat Earth Movers Limited (BEML), Bangalore. This vehicle will go and carry out the necessary repairs whenever a military tank develops snag and is struck somewhere.
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