BALASORE :
India’s Beyond Visual Range (BVR) air-to-air missile Astra was today successfully test fired from a Sukhoi-30 fighter aircraft for the second day in a row.
The missile, which was fired off Odisha coast near the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur, Balasore, has been indigenously designed and developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO).
In today’s test flight, an Astra missile carrying telemetry equipment in place of the warhead, was fired from the Sukhoi-30 aircraft against a Lakshya (pilotless target aircraft) target.
The target was successfully engaged and it was captured by telemetry and electro-optical tracking stations. (AGENCIES)
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