India on Friday successfully flight tested Solid Fuel Ducted Ramjet (SFDR) booster, a missile sy🔯stem, at the Integrated Test Range (ITR) in💟 Chandipur off the Odisha coast here.
The SFDR-based propulsion enables the missile to intercept aerial threats at very long range at supersonic speeds, the Defence Research and Development Orga🐼nisation (DRDO🌜) said.
The tes☂t demonstrated reliabl💧e functioning of all critical components involved in the complex missile system and met all the mission objectives, it said.
The performance🤡 o𝄹f the system has been confirmed from the data captured by a number of instruments like telemetry, radar and electro Optical tracking systems deployed by ITR.
Deಞfence Minister Rajnath Singh𝓀 congratulated DRDO for the successful trial of SFDR.
He termed it as a💧n important milestone towards development of critical missile technologie🔯s in the country.
The SFDR has been developed by Defence Research and Development Laboratory, Hyderabad, in collaboration with other DRDO laboratories such as Research Centre Imarat♏, Hyderabad and෴ High Energy Materials Research Laboratory, Pune.
