Vehicles Research & Development Establishment (VRDE) dates back to 1929, when the Chief Inspectorate of Mechanical Transport was formed at Chaklala (now in Pakistan). In 1947,

Areas of Work :

Development of specialist vehicles and systems for various roles including road mobile launchers and support vehicles for strategic missile programmes

Development of engines for unmanned aerial vehicles.

Development of light battle tank and systems for various combat roles.

Development of armoured wheeled vehicles and variants for various roles.

Development of systems and unmanned vehicles for nuclear, biological and chemical recce and after-treatment.

Development of light unmanned aerial vehicles for low intensity conflict operations.
Development of multi feed gasification with poly generation technology.

Testing of military and commercial vehicles and engines for design validation and performance evaluation including emission tests.

Facility :

National Centre for Automotive Testing
Test Tracks
Tracks For Accelerated Endurance
Tracks For Mobility Evaluation
Emission And Engine Lab
EMC Tech Centre

For more details you may contact to the Vehicles Research & Development Establishment the contact details are given below

Contact details

The Public Grievance Officer
VRDE, Vahannagar PO
AHMEDNAGAR 414 006,
Maharashtra (India)
Telephone: +91-241 - 2548401 09
Fax: +91-241- 2548410