Watch: DRDO’s UAV-fired missile destroys airborne target during air & ground combat trials

NEW DELHI: In a large boost to India’s indigenous defence capabilities, the Defence Research and Development Organisation successfully completed the last improvement trials of the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Launched Precision Guided Missile (ULPGM)-V3 successful some Air-to-Ground and Air-to-Air modes astatine the DRDO trial scope adjacent Kurnool successful Andhra Pradesh.The trials marked the last deliverable configuration investigating of the rocket strategy and were conducted utilizing an integrated Ground Control System (GCS) designed to bid and power the ULPGM limb platform. According to DRDO, the GCS incorporates precocious technologies to automate readiness and motorboat operations.

The ULPGM-V3 has been developed by Research Centre Imarat (RCI), Hyderabad, arsenic the nodal laboratory successful collaboration with different DRDO facilities including Defence Research & Development Laboratory (DRDL), Hyderabad, Terminal Ballistics Research Laboratory (TBRL), Chandigarh, and High Energy Materials Research Laboratory (HEMRL), Pune.DRDO partnered with Bharat Dynamics Limited and Adani Defence Systems & Technologies Limited for the missile’s improvement and production. The rocket strategy was integrated onto UAV platforms developed by Newspace Research and Technologies, Bengaluru, for the existent trials.Officials said the rocket was produced wholly done India’s home defence ecosystem involving MSMEs and backstage industries.

The palmy trials besides confirmed what DRDO described arsenic a “fully mature home proviso chain” susceptible of supporting contiguous serial wide production.Defence curate Rajnath Singh congratulated DRDO, nationalist assemblage units, defence accumulation partners and manufacture stakeholders for the palmy trials. He described the accomplishment arsenic “a strategical milestone achieved towards Aatmanirbharta successful Defence.”According to the defence ministry, the ULPGM-V3 demonstrated anti-tank onslaught capableness successful Air-to-Ground mode and was besides tested against drones, helicopters and airborne targets successful Air-to-Air mode.DRDO Chairman and Secretary, Department of Defence R&D, Samir V Kamat besides congratulated the teams associated with the trials for the palmy achievement.