Rudram-II, an air-to-surface missile, was successfully flight-tested from a Sukhoi-30MKI fighter jet of the Indian Air Force off the coast of Odisha on Tuesday, the Ministry of Defence said.
The Ministry of Defence said the Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO) and the Indian Air Force (IAF) have conducted the successful flight-tests of RudraM-II Air-to-Surface Missile.
RudraM-II is an indigenously developed solid-propelled air-launched missile system meant for a role to neutralise several types of enemy assets. It was also tested in May 2024.
Ministry of Defence today said, “The tests were conducted under extreme release conditions with critical trajectory establishing the capability of all subsystems”.
“The missiles after release were guided to a predefined target with pin-point accuracy. All the test objectives were fully met,” the Ministry added.
The same was confirmed by the flight data captured by various range instruments deployed by Integrated Test Range (ITR), Chandipur, it added.
Rudram-II has been indigenously developed by Research Centre Imarat, Hyderabad as the nodal DRDO laboratory in collaboration with other sister labs such as Defence Research and Development Laboratory, High Energy Materials Research Laboratory, Armament Research & Development Establishment & ITR.
Along with the Development cum Production Partners (DcPPs), agencies like Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, Regional Centre for Military Airworthiness, Missile System Quality Assurance Agency and many other industries have contributed significantly towards achieving this goal.
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has lauded the effort of DRDO, IAF, DPSUs, DcPPs and the industry for the successful flight-tests. He said the tests have demonstrated the growing maturity of indigenous defence technologies, contributing significantly to Aatmanirbharta in advance weapon systems.
