City company builds ‘longest’ periscope for Kalpakkam plant

Home Coimbatore: A10-metre long periscope manufactured by a city-based firm for a nuclear re actor at the Indira Gandhi Cen-tre for Atomic Research (IG-CAR) in Kalpakkam was dedicated to the nation on Mon-day The manufacturers claimed that the periscope was the longest in the world. Manufactured at a cost of Rs 3.9 crore by Coimbatore-based […]

Desi stealth vessel ready for sea trial in March

Home Thiruvananthapuram: After hitting the sky with unmanned aerial vehi cles, India is well on the way to test the ocean depths with its own unmanned underwater vehicle. The home-grown Autonomous Underwater Vehicle-150″ will be put to sea trials in March 2010 from the Chennai coast.Developed by the Durgapur-based Central Mechanical Engineering Re-search Institute, a […]

Periscope for fast breeder reactor commissioned

Home Special Correspondent COIMBATORE: A 10-meter long periscope manufactured by Coimbatore-based Visual Education Aids (VEA) for Prototype Fast Breeder Rese tor was dedicated to Bhartiya Nabhikiya Vidyut Nigam on Monday. J. Balu and J. Ravi, Direc tors of VEA, said the 10-meter long periscope was developed at a cost of Rs 39 crore in two-and-a-half […]