DRDO completes final trials of ULPGM-V3 precision missile near Kurnool

The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has completed the last deliverable configuration improvement trials of the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Launched Precision Guided Missile (ULPGM)-V3 successful air-to-ground and air-to-air modes astatine the DRDO trial scope adjacent Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh. The trials were carried retired utilizing an integrated Ground Control System (GCS) to bid and power the ULPGM limb system. The GCS features technologies to automate readiness and motorboat operations.

This improvement takes guardant the State and Union governments’ thought of making Andhra Pradesh 1 of the defence manufacturing hubs successful the country. Recently, Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh took portion successful the ground-breaking ceremonial for an Aircraft Integration and Flight Testing Complex by the Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA), nether DRDO, with an assured concern of ₹15,803 crore successful Satya Sai district.

This apart, a fig of PSUs and backstage firms specified arsenic Bharat Dynamics Limited, Kalyani Strategic Systems (Bharat Forge), Sagar Defence Engineering, HFCL and others are coming with their antithetic array of defence products. Mr. Naidu has already reiterated a fig of times that helium would marque Anantapur 1 of the biggest defence hubs successful the country, assuring some large investments and employment.

For the ULPGM-V3 project, DRDO has partnered with 2 accumulation agencies, Bharat Dynamics Limited, Hyderabad, and Adani Defence Systems & Technologies Limited, Hyderabad, for the improvement and accumulation of the missiles. The strategy has been integrated connected UAVs developed by Newspace Research and Technologies, Bengaluru, for existent trials.

The ULPGM rocket has been developed by Research Centre Imarat, Hyderabad, arsenic the nodal lab, on with different DRDO laboratories, namely Defence Research and Development Laboratory (DRDL), Hyderabad; Terminal Ballistics Research Laboratory (TBRL), Chandigarh; and High Energy Materials Research Laboratory (HEMRL), Pune.

The rocket has been produced wholly done the Indian defence ecosystem involving a ample fig of MSMEs and different industries. The trials confirmed a afloat mature home proviso chain, equipped for contiguous serial wide production.

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has complimented DRDO, PSUs, Defence cum Production Partners and manufacture for the improvement trials of ULPGM-V3 successful air-to-ground mode for anti-tank relation and air-to-air modes for drone, chopper and different airborne targets. He termed it a strategical milestone achieved towards Aatmanirbharta successful Defence.

Samir V. Kamat, Secretary, Department of Defence Research and Development, and DRDO Chairman, congratulated each the teams associated with the trials.