नवीनतम
India test fires Astra beyond visual missile
NEW DELHI [Maha Media]: India on Friday successfully test fired Astra beyond visual air-to-air missile from Su-30 Mk-I aircraft off the coast of Odisha, demonstrating its indigenous defence capabilities.
The missile has a range exceeding 100 km and is equipped with state-of-the art guidance and navigation system, officials said.
“The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and the Indian Air Force (IAF) successfully conducted the flight-test of indigenous beyond visual range air-to-air missile ‘Astra’ equipped with indigenous radio frequency seeker from Su-30 Mk-I platform,” the defence ministry said.
During the tests, two launches were carried out against high-speed unmanned aerial targets at different ranges, target aspects and launch platform conditions, it said.
“In both the cases, the missiles destroyed the targets with pin-point accuracy,” the ministry said in a statement.
It said all subsystems performed as per expectations including the radio frequency seeker which has been indigenously designed and developed by the DRDO.
