DRDO successfully test-fires RudraM-II air-to-surface missiles

• Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO) and the Indian Air Force conducted the successful flight-tests of RudraM-II air-to-surface missile from an airborne platform. 

• RudraM-II has been indigenously developed by Research Centre Imarat, Hyderabad as the nodal DRDO laboratory in collaboration with other sister labs such as Defence Research and Development Laboratory, High Energy Materials Research Laboratory, Armament Research & Development Establishment & ITR. 

• Along with the Development cum Production Partners (DcPPs), agencies like Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, Regional Centre for Military Airworthiness, Missile System Quality Assurance Agency and many other industries have contributed significantly towards achieving this goal.

• The range of the missile is around 350 kms.

• The tests were conducted under extreme release conditions with critical trajectory establishing the capability of all subsystems.

• The missiles after release were guided to a predefined target with pin-point accuracy. 

• All the test objectives were fully met as confirmed by the flight data captured by various range instruments deployed by Integrated Test Range (ITR), Chandipur.

(The author is a trainer for Civil Services aspirants.)