DRDO offers to take Delhi's Rs 40-crore Games balloon

[Water Car Engineer]

After lying idle in huge containers inside the Jawaharlal Nehru stadium for the past five months, the Rs 40-crore aerostat - the giant helium balloon that was the show-stealer at the 2010 Commonwealth Games inauguration - has found a taker. The Defence Research and DevelopmentOrganisation (DRDO) wants it for surveillance research.

The Games organisers had been struggling to find bidders for the aerostat. Even their offer to give it away for free to any government agency had found no takers.

The DRDO has developed a similar aerostat called 'Akashdeep' in its Agra lab for surveillance research, which can keep an eye on a 30-km radius.

"This can be upgraded depending on the army's requirement. We would like to use it for similar purposes," said RK Gupta, DRDO spokesperson.

The CWG aerostat has cameras that give a 360-degree view.

The Games Organising Committee chief Jarnail Singh said the sports ministry would take the final decision. The OC was recently slapped with a Rs 8-crore duty on the aerostat.

DRDO offers to take Delhi's Rs 40-crore Games balloon - Hindustan Times

 

[blackops]

That was such a amazing ballon part of one of the best openings
@tp what is the diameter of akashdep compared to this one

 

[killeragent]

Good work, its better to be used at some place instead of lying in covers for life time.

 

[Nair saab]

Kalmadi will sell it for free...

 

[misterme2]

"The Games Organising Committee chief Jarnail Singh said the sports ministry would take the final decision."


There should no time spent on making a bloody decision....If it is defense or research related, it should automatically get a green light and the process should be facilitated as quickly as possible!

 

[angeldemon_007]

"The Games Organising Committee chief Jarnail Singh said the sports ministry would take the final decision."

Who the hell is even interested for that balloon ??/ Nautanki karni jaruri hai, otherwise people will think Sports ministry does not have any thing to do.

 

[jayron]

What will they do with a balloon that is static?

 

[President Camacho]

Who the hell is even interested for that balloon ??/ Nautanki karni jaruri hai, otherwise people will think Sports ministry does not have any thing to do.

The reason why you are not in DRDO

 

[Humanist]

Oh no... I thought to buy that baloon for a 2 year old kid next to my home..

 

[angeldemon_007]

Who the hell is even interested for that balloon ??/ Nautanki karni jaruri hai, otherwise people will think Sports ministry does not have any thing to do.
Original Post By angeldemon_007


The reason why you are not in DRDO

Oh so you cannot understand something ironic. It me simplify it for you. I meant nobody is there except DRDO, so give the damn thing to DRDO, I hope you understood it now.

 

[Whiplash]

Doesn't make any sense. Aerostats are meant to be high altitude and tough. I doubt they can modify this baloon to that extent