The QRSAM is also a truck-mounted missile system and it has a 360° rotatable, electro-mechanically operated, turret-based launch unit.
BALASORE (ODISHA), JULY 3: India on Monday successfully test-fired indigenously developed Quick Reaction Surface-To-Air Short Range Missile (QRSAM) from a test range along the Odisha coast.
The sophisticated missile developed by Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) was test fired at about 11.30 AM from a truck-mounted canister launcher from launch complex-3 at the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur near here.
“All the technologies and subsystems incorporated in the missile performed well, meeting all the mission requirements. All the radars, electro optical systems, telemetry systems and other stations have tracked the missile and monitored all the parameters. The missile test met all the objectives,” a DRDO official said soon after the successful flight-test of the missile.
The QRSAM is a quick reaction, all-weather and network-centric search-on-the-move missile system. It can engage multiple targets at a range of about 30 km with two vehicle configuration for area air defence.
The QRSAM is also a truck-mounted missile system and it has a 360° rotatable, electro-mechanically operated, turret-based launch unit.
Defence Research and Development Laboratory (DRDL) director MSR Prasad, Research Centre Imarat (RCI) director BHVS N Murthy and Integrated Test Range (ITR) director Dr BK Das monitored the launch operation.
Defence minister’s special advisor Dr G Satheesh Reddy was present during the test.
Dr S Christopher, secretary, Defence Research and Development, congratulated all the scientists on the successful test.
Defence minister Arun Jaitley congratulated the DRDO on the successful trial of QRSAM and said it is an important milestone in the indigenous Surface to Air Missiles (SAM) development.
