India on Tuesday scrapped the country’s strategic integrated guided missile programme and said the development and production of most of futuristic weapons systems would henceforth be undertaken with foreign collobration. However, longer range missiles, under-sea launched missiles and futuristic weapons systems like electronic counter-warfare measures would be “undertaken in-house”, said one of the country’s top defence scientists Dr S Prahlada.
He said “closure” of the Integrated Development of Guided Missile Programme had been done as manufacture of most of the missiles to be developed under the project had been almost completed and inducted into the armed forces. India would be collaborating with Israel, France and Russia in missile technology.