India's state-owned Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has completed development trials of the indigenously designed Quick-Reaction Surface-to-Air Missile (QRSAM) system, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) in New Delhi announced in a 23 December statement.
The Indian MoD announced on 23 December that the DRDO has completed development trials of the QRSAM weapon system following another successful test-firing. It also said the system is expected to be ready for induction by 2021. (Via PIB)
The announcement followed another successful test-firing of the road-mobile system, which is being developed for the Indian Army (IA) from the Integrated Test Range (ITR) in Chandipur on the country's east coast.
“The missile was flight-tested with full configuration in deployment mode intercepting the target mid-air, meeting the mission objectives,” said the MoD, adding, “With this mission, the developmental trials of the weapon system are successfully completed, and the weapon system is expected to be ready for induction by 2021.”
Images released by the MoD showed the missile being test-fired from a truck-mounted launcher.
According to the MoD, the QRSAM weapon system comprises a fully automated command-and-control system, an active array battery surveillance radar, an active array battery multifunction radar, and launchers.
“Both radars are four-walled, having 360-degree coverage with search-on-move and track-on-move capability,” said the ministry, adding that the system “is compact with minimum number of vehicles for a firing unit”. The QRSAM’s single-stage missile, which uses solid-fuel propellant, has a mid-course inertial navigation system and features a two-way data link and a terminal active seeker developed by the DRDO, it added.
The system, which has a stated range of 25–30 km, is being developed by the DRDO in tandem with public sector companies Bharat Dynamics Limited and Bharat Electronics Limited.
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