ADVANCED MEDIUM COMBAT AIRCRAFT(AMCA): KRISHNA RAJENDRA NEELI, OFFG. PD (AMCA), ADA; K.S. NAGESH, ASSOCIATE PD (AMCA), ADA; V. VENKATA RAJU, CMD, VEM; H. BALAJI, SC-'F', DPD, ADA.
VEM Technologies was founded in the year
1988 and its mission is to consistently meet
and excel customer requirements in providing
superior products through pro-active interactions
and timely solutions. VEM is progressively
working to realise its mission.
The core strength of VEM is its highly committed
work force. VEM is motivated and guided by its
values, employees' health and morale, safety and
integrity, trust, respect, team spirit, intuitiveness
and innovation.
VEM has been into the design, develop and
manufacturing the systems and sub-systems for the
nose to tail of most of the Indian Missiles by working
for DRDO and subsequently being one of the
prominent production partners for Defence Public
Sector Units.
VEM's strong Research and Development and Design and Engineering capabilities
enabled VEM to come out with its own 100 per cent Indigenous Anti-Tank
Guided Missile which is currently at the fag end of completion of field trails. Parallelly,
VEM is working on the range of tactical missile systems, Ajita, Vismai to cater
to land and air version missile requirements for the armed forces. Vidhwansh is
one such lethal weapon system being developed by VEM to meet the Long Range
Guided Rocket requirements. Anti-Drones with soft and hard kill capable weapon
system is in development and will be offered to the Indian Armed Forces soon.
As part of its capacity and capability augmentation, VEM is building the "Integrated
Defence Systems Facility" near Hyderabad in a sprawling 511 acres of land. IDS
is one of its kind of facility in the Private Defence Industries as it has all the state-ofthe-
art facilities that would meet end to end weapon
systems integrations apart from Aero structures, UAS
and Anti-Drones, Radars, Sensors etc. It will cater
to the requirements of NADCAP approved Electro-
Plating and Heat treatment to ensure the critical processes
are carried out in house to ensure the quality
all through. IDS is also intended to cater to Assembly
Integration and Testing of Space programmes also.
VEM is an established Aeronautics company
dealing with Fighters, LCA Mk-1 where it is supplying
the Centre Fuselage and beginning to supply
the Generators soon. Pylon Assembly and Fuel
drop tanks are in the development and will commence
the supplies upon complying with the qualification
parameters.
VEM is the proud partner in Advanced Fighter
Aircraft programme and privileged to associate in the manufacturing all the modules
based on Composite and Metallic aero structures and carried out the assembly
and integration of the 1:1 AMCA Model at VEM which is in display in Aero India 2025.
Infra-Red Search and Tracker System is one such hi-tech system which is at the
functional model level and will be getting through the qualification parameters.
Post successful qualifications and on-board trails, VEM's IRST will be part of Indian
Fighters' programmes. Similarly, VEM is actively contributing to the Indigenisation
of several on-board import substitute systems, Helmet Mounting systems, IRSS,
Actuation systems, EO Systems, Vibration control systems etc. Qualified to bid the
end-to-end structural assemblies for the HAL Helicopter programmes and VEM
is confident to raise the levels to be one of the top production partners of HALHelicopters
division supplying the most complex and critical to technologies.