Vehicles Research and Development Establishment is a premier Research and Development Establishment of Defence Research and Development... Organisation and is spread in sprawling 600 acres of land in the historic city of Ahmednagar.
VRDE has been entrusted with two objectives – one is in the field of research and development of military vehicles and strengthening of Defence forces by providing state-of-the-art mobility solutions and second is the testing and evaluation of Defence and commercial vehicles in the world class National Centre of Automotive Testing facility.
VRDE is engaged in the design and development of Combat and Combat Support vehicles in both Wheeled and Tracked vehicles and has successfully developed the same.
VRDE is one of the important partners in the Strategic Program and is involved in the development of Ground Support Vehicles for all the Strategic and Tactical programs.
VRDE is also involved in the development of air worthy, light weight, rotary engines for UAV programs. Also VRDE has ventured in the field of Unmanned Ground Vehicles by designing and developing Autonomous Vehicle Platform.
Vision
• To get transformed into a centre of excellence in the field... of Light Tracked, Specialist Wheeled and Unmanned Vehicles to provide indigenous solutions to Armed Forces for the mobility of their weapons and equipments and also to LIC (Low Intensity Conflict) operations.
• To provide total solution to Defence and Automotive Industry for all their homologation and developmental testing needs through continuous evolution of the NCAT (National Centre for Automotive Testing) into a world class test facility.
Mission
Research, Development, Trial and Evaluation of : • Specialist Vehicles including Strategic Missile... Program.
• Combat and Combat Support Vehicles - Light Tracked (Up to 25t GVW).
• Combat and Combat Support Vehicles – Wheeled.
• Engines for UAVs (Rotary and Reciprocating).
• Unmanned Aerial (Up to 150kg AUW) and Unmanned Ground Vehicles.
Continuous Improvement and Augmentation of Test Facilities at NCAT.
