{"id":315090,"date":"2019-09-17T11:06:49","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T11:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=315090"},"modified":"2019-09-17T11:06:49","modified_gmt":"2019-09-17T11:06:49","slug":"air-to-air-missile-astra-successfully-flight-tested-from-su-30-mki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/air-to-air-missile-astra-successfully-flight-tested-from-su-30-mki\/","title":{"rendered":"Air-to-Air missile Astra successfully flight tested from Su-30 MKI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-315091 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Astra.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"484\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/09\/Astra.jpg 484w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/09\/Astra-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 484px) 100vw, 484px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Air-to-Air missile Astra has been successfully flight tested off the coast of Odisha.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The missile was launched on Tuesday from Su-30 MKI as a part of User trials. The live aerial target was engaged accurately demonstrating the capability of first indigenous air-to-air missile, the statement said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The mission profile was executed in a text book manner. Various Radars, Electro-Optical Tracking System (EOTS) and Sensors tracked the missile and confirmed its engagement with target, it said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Defence Minister Rajnath Singh congratulated DRDO and Air Force teams for the successful test.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Air-to-Air missile Astra has been successfully flight tested off the coast of Odisha. The missile was launched on Tuesday from Su-30 MKI as a part of User trials. The live aerial target was engaged accurately demonstrating the capability of first indigenous air-to-air missile, the statement said. The mission profile was executed in a text book [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":315091,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2089,2916,2014],"tags":[11805,11806],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315090"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315092,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315090\/revisions\/315092"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/315091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}