On what would have been Dr. Abdul Kalam’s 87th birthday, hear the former president recount how India's first supersonic cruise missile was built.
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00:00One of the great innovations that happened with the two-nation partnership
00:04is the development and production and marketing of the first supersonic cruise missile in the country.
00:11Now, this supersonic cruise missile, you know, I was at that time a working scientist, okay?
00:19There was a difference between a working scientist and a non-working scientist.
00:23So when I was working in my laboratory and I visited my Russian counterpart
00:29and he's called Professor Yefabo, he showed me a number of labs.
00:35And I found when it is a secret lab, when I found it's a defense laboratory like mine I was dealing,
00:42when I saw the item, there is some core competence uniquely I have not seen in any lab in the world or in my country.
00:51So I noted the unique, unique technology level two area we identified.
00:59Then I invited Professor Yefabo to my labs at RCA Research Center, Himaratha, Hyderabad.
01:05He came and he visited there and he also located two unique core competence.
01:12Then we found that Russia has got two unique core competencies and India has got two unique core competencies.
01:20And if we bring them together, a unique system may emerge.
01:26That's how the first, India's first supersonic cruise missile emerged with the investment of $300 million.
01:34Today it has become $10 billion business.
01:37This is really innovation.
01:40There is innovation technology, innovation marketing, and innovation in production.
01:47All the three areas there.