A very enthusiastic IAF officer, Gp. Capt V.S Narayanan, a
Technical Signals Officer, single handedly produced a project
report for possibility of developing guided weapons in India. He
had indicated that all guided weapon systems in different
classes and types then available were logically composed of
various sub systems of a limited number of technological
variants. In principle, by developing only a limited number of
variants of each type of sub-system, the country would be able
to evolve a great number of missiles systems by employing
appropriate permutations. As a fall out of this study, he had
already examined the possibility of “indigenising” SA-75, a
surface-to air (SAM) system, which was a recent acquisition by
IAF. Gp. Capt V.S Narayanan, was involved in the acquisition and
deployment of the system. He had examined the possibility of
different sub-systems being manufactured by different industries
in the country, so that eventually the whole system could be
indigenised. While, Defence Research and D