Vertical launch short range SAM for Navy test fired
- The Defence Research and Development Organisation announced a successful flight test of the Vertically-Launched Short-Range Surface-to-Air Missile for the Navy on March 26, 2025.
- The test, conducted by DRDO and the Indian Navy, demonstrated the missile's low-altitude capability and destroyed a high-speed aerial target at close range.
- Defence Minister Rajnath Singh described the missile as an excellent force multiplier for the Navy, highlighting India's design capabilities in defense R&D.
- Dr. Samir V. Kamat, DRDO Chairman, remarked that the missile's modern technologies will provide an additional boost to the armed forces' technological capabilities.
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India successfully flight-tests indigenously-developed vertically-launched Surface-to-Air Missile
New Delhi: In a boost to India’s precision firepower, the Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO) and the Indian Navy conducted the successful flight-test of indigenously-developed Vertically-Launched Short-Range Surface-to-Air Missile (VLSRSAM) on Wednesday, an official statement said. The test-firing, at the Integrated Test Range (ITR), Chandipur off the coast of Odisha at noon on Wednesday, was carried out from a land-based vertica…
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