Indigenous missiles BDL is the nodal agency for the production of missiles developed by India. The first such missile that entered production of dynamics with BDL was the
Prithvi missile. BDL manufactures a range of
missiles for the
Indian Armed Forces some prominent products are listed below: •
Agni In 1998, BDL produced
Agni-I, which was inducted into the Indian Armed Forces. BDL also manufactures other missiles and systems for the Indian Armed Forces •
Akash Akash (
Sanskrit: आकाश
Ākāś "Sky") is a medium-range
surface-to-air missile defence system developed by the
Defence Research and Development Organisation (
DRDO), and supported by
Ordnance Factories Board and
Bharat Electronics (BEL) in
India. The missile system can target aircraft up to 30 km away, at altitudes up to 18,000 m. A pre-fragmented warhead could potentially give the missile the capability to destroy both aircraft and warheads from ballistic missiles. It is in operational service with the
Indian Army and the
Indian Air Force. • Advanced Light Weight
Torpedo It can be launched from a Ship, Helicopter, or Submarine and is available in both warshot/exercise modes. Homing can be passive/active/mixed modes. It has multiple search pattern capabilities. • Counter Measures Dispensing Systems Counter Measures Dispensing System (CMDS) is a chaff and flare dispensing system. CMDS is an airborne defensive system providing self-protection to the aircraft by passive ECM against radar-guided and IR-seeking, air and ground-launched missiles. Protection to the aircraft is achieved by misguiding the missiles by dispensing chaff, and/or flare payloads. •
MILAN 2T This is a second-generation, semi-automatic, tube-launched, optically tracked missile with a tandem warhead. The Indian Army ordered 4,100 MILAN-2T missiles from France at a cost of on 27 January 2009. The deal was cleared after the
2008 Mumbai attacks. By then, BDL had already started
licensed production of MILAN and Konkurs missiles at an annual rate of 4.5 lakh units. On 8 March 2016 and 19 March 2021, additional orders for MILAN-2T missiles from BDL was placed with the latter worth for 4,960 missiles. The missiles were first urgently acquired from France •
Konkurs – M This is a second-generation, semi-automatic, anti-tank, tube-launched, optically tracked, wire-guided, and aerodynamically controlled missile. It is designed to destroy moving and stationary armoured targets with reactive armour at a range of 75 to 4000 metres. Salient Features: The Tandem warhead is simple in operation and immune to Electronic Countermeasures. High hit and kill probability, Portable and para-droppable. Hermetically sealed, ensuring long storage life. Around 15,000 Konkurs-M were ordered in 2008 from Russia for . Another 10,000 Konkurs-M was cleared for US$250 million in 2012. Additional contracts was signed on 8 January 2019 and 2 February 2022 for and , respectively. The latter was to be executed within 3 years at BDL's Bhanur facility. BDL reportedly produces the 9K111-1M system with a 9M113 anti-tank missile and a 9P135M-1 launcher. Used on
BMP-2 Sarath as well as man-portable ground launcher. • Invar Invar is a weapon fired from the gun barrel of a
T-90 Tank. The missile has a semi-automatic control system, tele-orienting in the laser beam. This is a high-velocity jamming immune missile with a tandem warhead designed to defeat explosive
reactive armour. Intended to destroy stationary and moving targets with speeds up to 70 km/h. An order worth was placed on 13 November 2025 to equip the
T-90 tanks of the Indian Army. ==References==