DRDO conducts successful flight tests of cruise missile and Pinaka long‑range guided rocket
India’s Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) carried out a flight test of an indigenous long‑range land‑attack cruise missile and a test of the Pinaka long‑range guided rocket, achieving the intended outcomes.
The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) successfully conducted a flight test of an indigenous long‑range land‑attack cruise missile, confirming the missile’s performance as intended. In a separate test, DRDO also carried out a successful flight test of the Pinaka long‑range guided rocket at the Integrated Test Range (ITR) in Chandipur on India’s east coast.
According to the Times of India, the cruise missile is designed for high‑precision strikes deep within hostile territories. The Pinaka LRGR rocket was tested for a user‑defined minimum range of 60 km and impacted the target with textbook precision, exactly following the predicted trajectory, as reported by ap7am.com.
The Hindu reported that Defence Minister Rajnath Singh congratulated the DRDO team and industry partners on the missile test success and described the test as a major achievement for India’s defence research ecosystem.
Ap7am.com also noted that the Pinaka LRGR rocket is designed by the Armament Research and Development Establishment in association with the High Energy Materials Research Laboratory, with support from the Defence Research and Development Laboratory and Research Centre Imarat.
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