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Enhanced Range 122MM Caliber Rocket Successfully Test-Fired Off Odisha Coast

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OB Bureau
Bhubaneswar: The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) successfully test-fired an enhanced range version of indigenously developed 122mm Caliber Rocket from Integrated Test Range (ITR) off the Odisha coast on Friday.
According to a PIB release, four enhanced range version of 122mm rockets were test-fired with full instrumentation and they met the complete mission objectives. All the flight articles were tracked by range instruments, including Telemetry, Radar and Electro-Optical Tracking System, deployed by ITR and Proof and Experimental Establishment (PXE).
These rockets have been developed for Army applications and can destroy targets up to 40 km. This enhanced rocket system,  developed jointly by Pune-based Armament Research and Development Establishment (ARDE) and High Energy Materials Research Laboratory (HEMRL) with manufacturing support from M/s Economic Explosives Limited, Nagpur, would replace the existing 122mm Grad rockets. 
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has congratulated DRDO and the Industry on the successful launch of 122mm Caliber Rocket. Secretary, Department of Defence R&D and Chairman DRDO Dr G Satheesh Reddy commended the efforts of the teams involved in successful trials.

 

OB Bureau

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