• Anti-Tank Guided Missile Helina successfully completed a flight-test at a high-altitude range as part of user validation trials.

• The flight-test was jointly conducted by teams of scientists from Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), Indian Army and Indian Air Force.

• The trial was conducted from an advanced light helicopter and the missile was fired successfully at a simulated tank target.

• Helina, the helicopter-launched version of the Nag, is a third generation fire-and-forget class Anti-Tank Guided Missile (ATGM) system mounted on the Advanced Light Helicopter (ALH).

• The system has all weather day and night capability and can defeat battle tanks with conventional armour as well as explosive reactive armour. 

• The missile can engage targets both in direct hit mode as well as top attack mode. 

• The missile is guided by an Imaging Infra-Red (IIR) seeker operating in the lock-on-before-launch mode. It is one of the most advanced anti-tank weapons in the world.

• A variant of the Helina weapon system is called Dhruvastra.

• Helina is developed for the Indian Army and Dhruvastra for Indian Air Force.

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