India’s Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has already carried out a series of successful developmental and user trials of its next-generation expendable aerial target vehicle ‘Abhyas’ and the system has entered mass production stage. The latest RFI asked vendors if they could supply under the most preferred ‘IDDM’ (Indigenously Designed, Developed, and Manufactured) category of the Defence Acquisition Procedure 2020, signalling a self-reliance push for the EAT NG system.