DRDO conducts flight-trials of VSHORADS missile system

• Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO) successfully conducted three successive flight-trials of Very Short-Range Air Defence System (VSHORADS) from the Integrated Test Range (ITR), Chandipur off the coast of Odisha on February 27.

• These tests were carried out to revalidate the capability of VSHORADS missile system in neutralising high-speed threats flying at varying speed, range, and altitude.

• VSHORADS is a man-portable air defence system designed and developed indigenously by Research Center Imarat in collaboration with other DRDO laboratories and Indian industry partners. 

• The missile system has the capability to meet the needs of all the three branches of the Armed Forces — Army, Navy and Air Force.

• During all the flight-tests, the missiles intercepted and destroyed the high-speed aerial targets mimicking enemy aircraft in various threat scenarios meeting all extreme engagement points. 

• The tests were carried out in final deployment configuration, where target acquisition & missile firing were carried out by field operators. 

• The flight data captured by various range instruments like telemetry, electro-optical tracking system and radars deployed by ITR, Chandipur, validated the effectiveness of VSHORADS against a wide range of aerial threats.