India successfully test-fired its first indigenously-developed air-to-air missile Astra from a Su-30 combat aircraft over a firing range in the western sector. “The indigenously developed Beyond Visual Range (BVR) air-to-air missile ‘ASTRA’ was successfully test fired by the Air Force from a naval range in the western sector meeting all the mission objectives,” a DRDO release said. Astra is India’s first BVR air-to-air missile indigenously designed and developed by DRDO and is an all-weather weapon system. Congratulating the team of scientists involved in the test-firing, DRDO chief Mr Avinash Chander said the missile would be soon tested against an actual target and is planned to be equipped on the indigenous Light Combat Aircraft ‘Tejas’.

Source: Indian Express

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