Key Takeaways
- DRDO successfully conducted three VSHORADS flight trials at ITR Chandipur.
- The VSHORADS system is designed to neutralise high-speed aerial threats and has been tested in various scenarios.
- The system has the capability to meet the needs of all three branches of the armed forces and can be inducted into the armed forces soon.
New Delhi: Three successive flight trials of Very Short-Range Air Defence System (VSHORADS) was conducted by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) from the Integrated Test Range (ITR), Chandipur off the coast of Odisha.
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 Centre Imarat in collaboration with other DRDO laboratories and development-cum-production partners. The missile system has the capability to meet the needs of all the three branches of the armed forces.
In a statement issued here, the Ministry of Defence stated that 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 flight trials were conducted in the final deployment configuration, where field operators were responsible for target acquisition and missile firing.
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.
These user validation flight-trials were carried out in the presence of the representatives of joint forces along with senior officials from DRDO and development-cum-production partners.
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh congratulated DRDO, armed forces and the industries for the successful flight-tests of the system. He stated that the three consecutive successive flight-trials of VSHORADS is a great success, and the system can soon be inducted into armed forces.
Secretary, Department of Defence R&D and Chairman DRDO Dr Samir V Kamat congratulated the entire DRDO team involved in design and development of the system, armed forces, and industry partners
