Start-ups like Big Bang Boom Solutions to drive innovation in weaponry

If Big Bang Boom Solutions manages to translate the Rs 1.5-crore iDEX award into a functional system, it would enhance the combat capability of crews in the Army's 4,000 tanks

When the ministry of defence (MoD) launched its Start-up Challenge under the Innovations for Defence Excellence (iDEX) scheme, inviting start-ups to propose solutions for 15 specified technologies, bureaucrats knew they would be dealing with very different people and companies than the public sector they were accustomed to.

Even so, there were barely suppressed smiles when a Hyderabad-based start-up, Big Bang Boom Solutions, won the challenge to develop “see through armour” for tanks. While the start-up’s technology plan is ingenious, its financial plan is unique. 

The company’s technology intends to make crewmembers inside a closed, armoured tank fully aware of what is outside.