The tender under TDF seeks a jam-proof cluster of 50 drones flying under half a metre apart as a single system; payload left open, PSUs shut out, only MSMEs & startups eligible.
Singh also ruled out any dialogue with Pakistan except on Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (PoK), describing it as an integral part of India under illegal occupation.
Congress leader Pawan Khera said it was shameful that a government that often projects itself as nationalist had denied these heroes the recognition they deserved for so long.
Dwivedi said that the integrated response seen in Operation Sindoor was built on the kind of jointness the National Defence Academy instils from day one.
External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal claimed that the recent reports corroborated what India had previously maintained on China’s involvement.
