After a four-decade-long struggle, homegrown systems developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) are now participating in military operations, said Ummalaneni Raja Babu, Distinguished Scientist and Director General - Missiles and Strategic Systems (MSS), who received the “Changemaker of Year” Award at the 7th edition of businessline Changemaker Awards held at Mumbai, Friday.
“It has been a long struggle which spanned more than four decades to reach where we are today. We have gone through very tough times. There were denials, sanctions and all types of controls to deny many of these critical technologies. But I think the resolve of the nation, the commitment of all those scientists and the industry that supported us, today we have seen many of our homegrown s