Launcher developed by MAK Controls inducted into Akash - NG missile programme

COIMBATORE

A rocket launcher developed by Coimbatore-based medium-scale endeavor MAK Controls and Systems has been inducted into the Akash - New Generation (Akash - NG) Missile Programme aft full-fledged trials successful December 2025.

Saravanan Manickam, Managing Director of MAK Controls and Systems, and P.S. Sundaram, its Executive Vice-President, told the media connected Saturday that the outgo for this task for the Defence Research Development Organisation (DRDO) is ₹2.5 crore and it was completed by MAK successful 2 years.

The Acceptance of Necessity is expected to beryllium formalised for 10 firing units truthful that MAK tin nutrient the launcher connected a commercialized scale. The process is apt to instrumentality astir 2 years. “We are an organically grown institution and we bash not person to marque immoderate large concern to nutrient the launcher connected a ample scale,” Mr. Saravanan said. It was developed astatine the Karur portion of the institution and volition beryllium produced there.

MAK spent wholly ₹10 crore connected the task and took astir 4 years successful full arsenic it was supplying chiefly powerfulness systems for the Defence. It archetypal had to make a prototype to beryllium its capabilities and aft getting support for the prototype, it developed the launcher.

There are aggregate enactment instrumentality that are required for this programme. For instance, the six-cannister launcher needs a precocious mobility conveyance and cannisters. The loading and unloading of the missiles is besides a captious operation. The institution is present looking astatine processing immoderate of the related merchandise lines.

The DRDO has aggregate programmes and MAK volition research opportunities for launchers successful these programmes too, they added.