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IAF-DRDO flight-tested Helicopter-launched SANT Missile

Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and Indian Air Force (IAF) successfully flight-tested the indigenously designed and developed Helicopter launched (air-launched) Stand-off Anti-tank (SANT) Missile from the Pokhran range in Rajasthan. For the first time that this was launched from a Russian origin Mi-35 helicopter gunship.

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About the missile:

  • It is equipped with a state-of-the-art Millimetre Wave Seeker which provides high precision strike capability from a safe distance.
  • It can neutralise targets in a range up to 10 km. SANT missile has been designed and developed by Research Centre Imarat, Hyderabad.

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