Armament Research & Development Establishment (ARDE) is a laboratory of the Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) Located in Pune, It is the main DRDO lab involved in the development of Conventional Armaments. ARDE's main area of research is in the design and development of Conventional Armaments for the Indian Armed Forces. This stretches over the whole gamut of research, development, prototyping, test and evaluation, and transfer of technology activities. This includes basic and applied research, modeling, simulation and software development of armaments. Additionally, life extension and up gradation of in-Service equipment is also carried out. Being a research laboratory, ARDE does not carry out large-scale production activities, except for limited scale pilot-plant production of crucial items. After an initial production, the technologies developed by it are transferred to manufacturing agencies like BEL OFB and other manufacturers. In this capacity, ARDE supervises the Transfer of Technology to these plants, and aids in initial production and Quality Assurance of these products. With the Indian Armed Forces using many weapons from foreign vendors, it is necessary to integrate them and make them compatible with other existing systems in service. ARDE is involved in advising the Services regarding induction and indigenization of Weapon Systems of Foreign Origin.
It is the main DRDO lab involved in the development of Conventional Armaments-Small Arms, Artillery & Tank guns, Pinaka Multi Barrel Rocket Launcher, Arjun MBT Tank gun, Ammunition & Bombs, Escape Systems.Give comma between BEL OFB Make it bold In, Product available: Spelling mistake- Daksh Robot not Dkash Robot.