Operation Sindoor | Weapons Strike, Materials Decide: DRDO’s Hidden Hand behind Operation Sindoor

Operation Sindoor was a crowning glory, but the silent strength lies in materials. Steel before strategy, how DRDO built the backbone of India’s war machine. At DRDO’s Defence Metallurgical Research Laboratory in Hyderabad, scientists developed the super special DMR-grade steel that built INS Vikrant, create armour steels for tanks, and fused‑silica radomes for missiles, nickel based special alloys, quality super magnets, all technologies the world guards closely because weapons begin with quality materials. NDTV’s Science Editor Pallava Bagla visited the highly secretive materials laboratory in Hyderabad and exclusively spoke to Dr R. Balamuralikrishnan, Materials Scientist, Director, Defence Metallurgical Research Laboratory a part of DRDO, Hyderabad