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India has successfully carried retired the maiden flight-trial of an indigenously developed glide limb strategy disconnected the seashore of Odisha.
The Tactical Advanced Range Augmentation (TARA) system, developed to person unguided warheads into precision guided weapons, was tested connected Thursday (May 7, 2026), according to the Defence Ministry.
"The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and the Indian Air Force (IAF) successfully conducted the maiden flight-trial of TARA limb disconnected the seashore of Odisha," it said.
It said TARA is India's archetypal indigenous glide limb strategy to person unguided warheads into precision guided weapons.
“The limb strategy has been designed and developed by Research Centre Imarat (RCI), Hyderabad, on with different DRDO laboratories to heighten the lethality and accuracy of a low-cost limb to neutralise ground-based targets,” the Ministry said successful a statement.
“It is the archetypal glide limb to utilise state-of-the-art low-cost systems,” it added. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has congratulated the DRDO, the Indian Air Force and the manufacture partners progressive successful the task for the maiden flight-trial of the limb system.
He described it arsenic a important improvement successful advancing India's indigenous defence capabilities.
