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DRDO successfully conducts flight test of ABHYAS

DRDO successfully conducts flight test of ABHYAS

India Blooms News Service | @indiablooms | 13 May 2019, 04:10 pm

New Delhi, May 13 (IBNS): Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) conducted a successful flight test of ABHYAS - High-speed Expendable Aerial Target (HEAT) from Interim Test Range, Chandipur in Odisha on Monday.

The flight test was tracked by various RADARS & Electro Optic Systems and proved its performance in a fully autonomous waypoint navigation mode.

The configuration of ABHYAS is designed on an in-line small gas turbine engine and uses indigenously developed MEMS based navigation system for its navigation and guidance.

The performance of the system was as per simulations carried out and demonstrated the capability of ABHYAS to meet the mission requirement for a cost-effective HEAT.

 

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