‘Top attack capability against moving target’: DRDO tests anti-tank guided missile — watch

NEW DELHI: Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) connected Monday successfully formation tested 3rd procreation Fire & Forget Man Portable Anti-Tank Guided Missile (MPATGM), which has a apical onslaught capableness against a moving target.A video released from a godforsaken trial scope shows a palmy rocket firing during a weapons proceedings conducted successful the KK Ranges astatine Ahilya Nagar successful Maharashtra.The footage opened with a side-rear camera presumption of a two-member unit positioned down a tripod-mounted launcher, which was already elevated and locked onto the target.Moments later, the rocket was fired with a agleam orange-white plume and a crisp muzzle flash arsenic the rocket centrifugal ignited.

It exited the launcher rapidly and climbed steeply, indicating a top-attack formation illustration alternatively than a direct, level trajectory. In the mid-flight phase, tracking footage showed the rocket arcing precocious crossed the godforsaken sky, leaving down a bladed fume trail.In the terminal phase, captured by a abstracted interaction camera, the rocket descended astir vertically onto a designated target, believed to beryllium an armoured conveyance oregon vessel mock-up placed connected the range.

The interaction triggered a agleam explosion, followed by a fireball, heavy achromatic smoke, and flying debris, demonstrating a precise onslaught connected the target’s precocious aboveground and a palmy warhead detonation.

MPATGM, a shoulder-launched, portable rocket system, is specifically designed to antagonistic force tanks and armoured vehicles. Weighing astir 14.5 kg, with an further 14.25 kg for the bid motorboat portion (CLU), the rocket is simply a lightweight, cylindrical limb featuring 2 sets of 4 radial fins. Its high-explosive anti-tank (HEAT) shaped complaint warhead, combined with an operational scope of 200 to 4,000 metres, makes it a formidable plus connected the battlefield. The indigenously developed MPATGM consists of state-of-the-art indigenous technologies similar Imaging Infrared (IIR) Homing Seeker, each electrical Control Actuation System, Fire Control System, Tandem Warhead, propulsion strategy and precocious show sighting system, which are developed by DRDO's sister laboratories.