New Delhi, June 2 (IANS) Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday lauded the Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO) and the Indian Air Force (IAF) for conducting the successful flight tests of RudraM-II Air-to-Surface Missile from an airborne platform.

He said that the tests have demonstrated the growing maturity of indigenous defence technologies, contributing significantly to Aatmanirbharta in advance weapon systems.

The tests were conducted under extreme release conditions with critical trajectory establishing the capability of all subsystems, said a statement issued by the Ministry of Defence.

The missiles, after release, were guided to a predefined target with pinpoint 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.

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, said the statement.

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh lauded the effort of DRDO, IAF, DPSUs, DcPPs and the industry for the successful flight-tests.

Rajnath Singh praised the flight tests of RudraM-II Air-to-Surface Missile, saying that the development has shown the expanding indigenous defence technologies, contributing significantly to Aatmanirbharta in advance weapon systems.

Secretary, Department of Defence R&D and Chairman DRDO has congratulated all the teams associated with the test for the commendable achievement.

Last month, the DRDO successfully completed the final deliverable configuration development trials of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Launched Precision Guided Missile (ULPGM)-V3 in Air-to-Ground and Air-to-Air modes at the DRDO test range near Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh.

Rajnath Singh had complimented DRDO, PSUs, Defence-cum-Production partners and industry for the successful development trials of ULPGM-V3 in Air-to-Ground mode for anti-tank role and Air-to-Air modes for drone, helicopter and other airborne targets.

–IANS

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