VISION

TBRL envisage self-reliance in the development of technologies related to warheads and provide state-of-the-art diagnostics facilities for assessment of terminal effects of armaments stores.

MISSION

Develop technologies and products related to warheads. Provides state-of-the-art diagnostics facilities for test and evaluation of armaments stores. Build strong technology base in the country in the field of armaments by providing requisite infrastructures and committed quality manpower. 

Terminal Ballistics Research Laboratory (TBRL) was envisaged in 1961 as one of the modern armament research laboratories under the Department of Defence Research & Development.The laboratory became fully operational in 1967 and was formally inaugurated in January 1968 by the then Defence Minister. While the main laboratory is situated in Chandigarh, the firing range, spread over an area of 5000 acre, is located at Ramgarh in Haryana, 22 km away from Chandigarh.