The Indian Navy has revealed that it has taken delivery of its first privately manufactured, fully indigenous fuze - YDB-60 - for its underwater Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) Rocket, RGB-60.
The fuze - a cylindrical device installed in submarine rockets - is designed to detonate an explosive material in the sea and hit the target underwater.
The chief managing director of the Nagpur city-based private Indian industry, Economic Explosives Ltd (EEL), Satyanarayan Nandlalji Nuwal, delivered the first consignment of the fuze to the deputy chief of the Indian Navy, Vice-Admiral Satishkumar Nandeo Ghormade.
Calling it a major achievement for the country and a big boost to the Indian Armed Forces, Ghormade said that the growing participation of private industries in manufacturing armaments and ammunition is remarkable.