The Arjun main battle tank was developed by which establishment?
- A.Vehicle Research and Development Establishment, Ahmednagar
- B.Combat Vehicles Research and Development Establishment, Avadi
- C.Defence Research and Development Laboratory, Hyderabad
- D.Terminal Ballistics Research Laboratory, Chandigarh
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Explanation
The correct answer is B, the Combat Vehicles Research and Development Establishment at Avadi. CVRDE, near Chennai, is the DRDO laboratory for armoured fighting vehicles, and the Arjun main battle tank was designed there and is produced at the Heavy Vehicles Factory in the same town. The tank carries a one hundred and twenty millimetre rifled gun and composite armour developed in India.
Option A, the Vehicle Research and Development Establishment at Ahmednagar, works on wheeled military vehicles and their testing rather than on the main battle tank. Option C, the Defence Research and Development Laboratory at Hyderabad, is the lead missile laboratory. Option D, the Terminal Ballistics Research Laboratory at Chandigarh, studies what a projectile does when it strikes a target, including armour penetration, but it does not build tanks.
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Practice Questions
View allWhich of the following missiles is a canister launched hypersonic surface-to-surface tactical missile developed by DRDO?
- A.Astra
- B.Akash
- C.Shaurya
- D.Trishul
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Shaurya is the land based version of the submarine launched K-15 Sagarika, and it is stored and fired from a sealed canister, which lets it be moved by road and launched at short notice.
Read the full explanation →The Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme, approved in 1983, was led by
- A.Homi Jehangir Bhabha
- B.Vikram Sarabhai
- C.A P J Abdul Kalam
- D.Satish Dhawan
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The Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme was approved in 1983 and Kalam, then at the Defence Research and Development Laboratory, was made its head.
Read the full explanation →Which missile developed under the IGMDP is an anti-tank guided missile?
- A.Nag
- B.Trishul
- C.Prithvi
- D.Akash
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Nag is a third generation anti-tank guided missile of the fire and forget kind, which means that once the seeker has locked on to the target the operator need not keep guiding it, and the crew can move away at once.
Read the full explanation →The name of the BrahMos missile is derived from the names of which two rivers?
- A.Brahmaputra and Moskva
- B.Brahmaputra and Volga
- C.Beas and Moskva
- D.Brahmani and Moskva
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BrahMos is built by BrahMos Aerospace, a joint venture formed in 1998 between DRDO and the Russian firm NPO Mashinostroyeniya, and the name joins a great river of each country.
Read the full explanation →In which year was the Defence Research and Development Organisation formed?
- A.1947
- B.1958
- C.1969
- D.1983
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DRDO was formed in that year by bringing together the Technical Development Establishment of the Indian Army, the Directorate of Technical Development and Production and the Defence Science Organisation, so that defence research would be done under one roof.
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