Visakhapatnam: “Andhra Pradesh has emerged as a new powerhouse of India’s defence and aerospace manufacturing,” Defence Minister Rajanth Singh said on Saturday while speaking at the commissioning ceremony of INA Mahendragiri here.
AP is playing its role across air, water, land, and the unmanned domain. In Puttaparthi, we laid the foundation stone for the Core Integration and Flight Testing Centre of the Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft (AMCA). In the Anakapalli district, the foundation stone for a new Naval Systems Manufacturing Facility of Bharat Dynamics Limited (BDL) was also laid. Autonomous underwater vehicles, torpedoes, and underwater counter-measure systems will be manufactured here. This means the weapon systems that we once used to import from abroad will now be produced near our own Vizag. AMCA in the skies, BDL’s naval systems in the depths of the ocean, Kurnool’s drones in the unmanned domain, and today, INS Mahendragiri on the surface of the sea. This signifies that Andhra Pradesh is now contributing to India’s defence strength across every sphere–air, water, land, and the unmanned domain,” the Minister stated.
“Future wars may be fought with Artificial Intelligence, but they will still be won by national resolve, trained soldiers and the capable military power. So, I would say that new technologies and conventional platforms are not opposed to each other, but supplement each other, complete each other. Without conventional platforms, new technologies are incomplete in themselves,” he said.
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