Long Range Bomb Successfully Flight-Tested By Air Force, Defence Body DRDO
NDTV
The Long-Range Bomb after release from the Indian Air Force fighter aircraft was guided with accuracy to a land-based target at long range within specified limits.
The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and the Indian Air Force (IAF) team successfully flight-tested the indigenously developed Long-Range (LR) Bomb from an aerial platform in Odisha's Balasore on Friday, Defence sources said.
The LR Bomb after release from the IAF fighter aircraft was guided with accuracy to a land-based target at long range within specified limits. All the mission objectives were successfully met, they said.
The flight of the bomb and the performance was monitored by a number of range sensors, including the Electro-Optical Tracking System, telemetry and radar deployed by the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur in Odisha, the sources said.
The LR Bomb has been designed and developed by Research Centre Imarat (RCI) in Hyderabad in coordination with other DRDO laboratories.
