Smart Anti Airfield Weapon Successfully Test-Fired From Hawk-I Aircraft Off Odisha Coast – ODISHA BYTES
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Bhubaneswar: In a lift to India’s air defence functionality, the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) on Thursday efficiently test-fired a Smart Anti Airfield Weapon (SAAW) from the Hawk-i plane off Balasore coast in Odisha.
It is for the primary time that the stand-off weapon indigenously developed by Research Centre Imarat (RCI), DRDO was fired from an Indian Hawk-Mk132. The SAAW is an plane launched weapon in 125 kg class to assault and destroy enemy airfield belongings equivalent to radars, bunkers, taxi tracks, runways inside a spread of 100 kms.
The plane flown by HAL check pilots fired the weapon in a textual content guide method and all mission goals had been met. The telemetry and monitoring techniques captured all of the mission occasions confirming the success of the trials.
“HAL has been focusing on the Atmanirbhar Bharat Campaign. The company owned HAWK-i platform is being extensively used for certification of systems and weapons developed indigenously by DRDO and CISR labs,” stated HAL CMD, R Madhavan.
Earlier, the SAAW was profitable check fired from Jaguar plane.
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