DRDO conducted a successful test of the New Generation AKASH
(AKASH-NG) missile from the Integrated Test Range (ITR), Chandipur off the
coast of Odisha in January 2024.
Four flight trials of High-speed Expendable Aerial Target
(HEAT)-ABHYAS were successfully carried out by DRDO from the Integrated Test
Range, Chandipur in Odisha during 30 January to 2 February 2024.
DRDO conducted two successful tests of Very Short-Range Air
Defence System (VSHORADS) missile on 28-29 February 2024 from a ground based
portable launcher off the coast of Odisha from Integrated Test Range,
Chandipur. VSHORADS is a Man Portable Air Defence System (MANPAD).
DRDO conducted first successful test of indigenously developed
Agni-5 missile with Multiple Independently Targetable Re-Entry Vehicle (MIRV)
technology. The flight test named Mission Divyastra was carried out from Dr APJ
Abdul Kalam Island in Odisha.
Strategic Forces Command, along with DRDO, conducted the
successful test of New Generation Ballistic Missile Agni-Prime from Dr APJ
Abdul Kalam Island off the coast of Odisha in April 2024.
Man Portable Anti-tank Guided Missile Weapon System, indigenously
designed and developed by DRDO, was field evaluated in different flight
configurations several times with the objective of proving the technology with
high superiority.
DRDO, along with researchers of IIT Delhi developed Light Weight
Bullet Proof Jackets named ABHED (Advanced Ballistics for High Energy Defeat)
in the country for protection against 7.62 x 54 R API (Level 6 of BIS 17051)
ammunition.
Supersonic Missile-Assisted Release of Torpedo (SMART) system was
successfully flight-tested in May 2024 from Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Island off the coast
of Odisha. SMART is a next generation missile based light weight torpedo
delivery system to enhance the anti-submarine warfare capability of the Indian
Navy far beyond the conventional range of lightweight torpedo.
DRDO successfully tested RudraM-II air-to-surface missile from a
Su-30MKI platform of IAF off the coast of Odisha in May 2024.
DRDO handed over the Medium Range-Microwave Obscurant Chaff Rocket
to the Indian Navy at a ceremony held in New Delhi in June 2024. Microwave
Obscurant Chaff, a niche technology developed by DRDO’s Defence Laboratory,
Jodhpur, obscures radar signals and creates a microwave shield around platforms
and assets, thus reducing radar detection.
DRDO successfully tested Phase-II Ballistic Missile Defence System
in July 2024. The flight test fully met all the trial objectives.
DRDO carried out successful maiden flight test of Long Range Glide
Bomb, Gaurav from Su-30MKI platform of IAF. Gaurav is an air launched 1,000 kg
class glide bomb capable of hitting targets at long distance.
DRDO and the Indian Navy conducted back-to-back successful flight
tests of the Vertical Launch Short Range Surface to Air Missile.
DRDO conducted the maiden flight-test of Long Range Land Attack
Cruise Missile from the Integrated Test Range, Chandipur off the coast of
Odisha in November 2024 from a mobile articulated launcher.
DRDO successfully completed the Flight Tests of Guided Pinaka
Weapon System as part of Provisional Staff Qualitative Requirements Validation
Trials. The flight tests were conducted in three phases at different field
firing ranges.
DRDO conducted a successful flight-trial of India’s first
long-range hypersonic missile; it is designed to carry various payloads for
ranges greater than 1,500 kms for the Armed Forces.
