By PTI
BALASORE: India on Friday efficiently flight examined Solid Fuel Ducted Ramjet (SFDR) booster, a missile system, on the Integrated Test Range (ITR) in Chandipur off the Odisha coast right here.
The SFDR-based propulsion permits the missile to intercept aerial threats at very lengthy vary at supersonic speeds, the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) stated.
The take a look at demonstrated dependable functioning of all vital parts concerned within the advanced missile system and met all of the mission goals, it stated.
The efficiency of the system has been confirmed from the info captured by numerous devices like telemetry, radar and electro Optical monitoring techniques deployed by ITR.
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh congratulated DRDO for the profitable trial of SFDR.
He termed it as an essential milestone in the direction of improvement of vital missile applied sciences within the nation.
The SFDR has been developed by Defence Research and Development Laboratory, Hyderabad, in collaboration with different DRDO laboratories reminiscent of Research Centre Imarat, Hyderabad and High Energy Materials Research Laboratory, Pune.