Bhubaneswar: The flight test of Supersonic Missile Assisted Release of Torpedo (SMART) from Dr Abdul Kalam Island off Odisha coast was successful on Monday.
According to official sources, all the mission objectives including missile flight upto the range and altitude, separation of the nose cone, release of torpedo and deployment of Velocity Reduction Mechanism (VRM) were met perfectly.
The tracking stations along the coast and the telemetry stations including down range ships monitored the all the manoeuvres of the missile.
SMART is a missile-assisted release of lightweight Anti-Submarine Torpedo System for Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) operations far beyond torpedo range. This launch and demonstration is significant in establishing anti-submarine warfare capabilities.
DRDO laboratories including DRDL, RCI Hyderabad, ADRDE Agra, NSTL Visakhapatnam have developed the technologies required for SMART.
Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has congratulated the DRDO for the successful flight-test of SMART.
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