DRDO hands over indigenous highly mobile bridges to Indian Army

The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has handed over highly mobile bridges to the Indian Army. The bridges, which have been developed by the Research and Development Establishment (Engineers) under DRDO, is part of Armament and Combat Engineering technology cluster which is Pune-headquartered.

According to a statement from the Ministry of Defence (MoD) “It is a step towards weaning away of our armed forces from foreign manufactured equipment. These have been designed and developed indigenously and are being delivered as per the schedule.”

These are 10-meter short-span mechanically launched bridges, the first of the three was handed over to the Indian Army recently at the facility of Larsen & Toubro Ltd at Talegaon in Pune where these are being manufactured. These bridges have been developed based on the requirement of the armed forces and are being done in coordination with the Corps of Engineers, Indian Army.

Also, the DRDO has developed different variants of the bridges viz.five-meter and 15 meters. And these have been inducted into the Indian Army.