DRDO India successfully tested the Supersonic Missile Assisted Release of Torpedo (SMART) from Wheeler Island off the coast of Odisha on Monday.
All mission objectives, including missile flight upto the range and altitude, separation of the nose cone, the release of Torpedo and deployment of Velocity Reduction Mechanism (VRM), were met perfectly in the flight test, read the official statement.
“The tracking stations (Radars, Electro Optical Systems) along the coast and telemetry stations including down range ships monitored all the events,” it said further.
DRDO chairman Dr G Satheesh Reddy said, ””SMART is a game-changer technology demonstration in the ASW.”
SMART is a missile assisted release of lightweight Anti-Submarine Torpedo System for anti-submarine warfare (ASW) operations for far beyond torpedo range. This launch and demonstration are significant in establishing ASW capabilities.
The events of today were monitored by the tracking stations (Radars, Electro Optical Systems) along the coast and the telemetry stations including down range ships.
A number of DRDO laboratories, including DRDL, RCI Hyderabad, ADRDE Agra, NSTL Visakhapatnam, have developed the technologies required for SMART.
Earlier, this month DRDO had successfully tested Laser-Guided Anti Tank Guided Missile.
Also, in September India had successfully flight tested the indigenously-developed Hypersonic Technology Demonstrator Vehicle (HSTDV) for the first time. Read more about it:
