HYDERABAD: A first-of-its-kind environmental test facility (ETF) will be set up in Visakhapatnam by Bharat Dynamics Limited (BDL) to test infrastructure for torpedoes and underwater weapons.
Vice Admiral Biswajit Dasgupta, Chief of Staff, Eastern Naval Command, on Friday laid the foundation stone for establishing the ETF at Visakhapatnam unit of BDL.
The ETF will consist of vibration testing, thermal chamber and walking chamber for a whole torpedo. This will be a state-of-the-art facility in India wherein the vibration test of a torpedo of eight meter length and two tonnes of weight can be carried out at a time.
