{"id":326759,"date":"2020-09-23T10:31:10","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T10:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=326759"},"modified":"2020-09-23T10:31:10","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T10:31:10","slug":"drdo-successfully-test-fires-anti-tank-guided-missile-from-mbt-arjun-rajnath-singh-says-india-proud-of-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/drdo-successfully-test-fires-anti-tank-guided-missile-from-mbt-arjun-rajnath-singh-says-india-proud-of-you\/","title":{"rendered":"DRDO successfully test fires Anti Tank Guided Missile from MBT Arjun, Rajnath Singh says &#8216;India proud of you&#8217;"},"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-326760 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/drdo-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"587\" height=\"391\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/09\/drdo-1.jpg 587w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/09\/drdo-1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 587px) 100vw, 587px\" \/>Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Wednesday congratulated the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) for successfully conducting test firing of Laser-Guided Anti Tank Guided Missile (ATGM).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cIndia is proud of Team DRDO which is assiduously working towards reducing import dependency in the near future,\u201d the Defence Minister added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cCongratulations to @DRDO_India for successfully conducting test firing of Laser Guided Anti Tank Guided Missile from MBT Arjun at KK Ranges (ACC&amp;S) in Ahmednagar. India is proud of Team DRDO which is assiduously working towards reducing import dependency in the near future,\u201d Rajnath Singh tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Laser Guided Anti Tank Guided Missile (ATGM) was successfully test fired from MBT Arjun Tank at KK Ranges, Armoured Corps Centre and School (ACC&amp;S) Ahmednagar on September 22. In these tests, the ATGM successfully defeated a target located at 3 km. Laser guided ATGMs lock and track the targets with the help of laser designation to ensure precision hit accuracy, according to the official release.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe missile employs a tandem HEAT warhead to defeat Explosive Reactive Armour (ERA) protected armoured vehicles. It has been developed with multiple-platform launch capability and is currently undergoing technical evaluation trials from a gun of MBT Arjun,\u201d DRDO said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Armament Research &amp; Development Establishment (ARDE) Pune in association with High Energy Materials Research Laboratory (HEMRL) Pune, and Instruments Research &amp; Development Establishment (IRDE) Dehradun have developed the missile.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Secretary DDR&amp;D &amp; Chairman DRDO congratulated DRDO personnel and industry on the successful test firing.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Wednesday congratulated the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) for successfully conducting test firing of Laser-Guided Anti Tank Guided Missile (ATGM). \u201cIndia is proud of Team DRDO which is assiduously working towards reducing import dependency in the near future,\u201d the Defence Minister added. \u201cCongratulations to @DRDO_India for successfully conducting test [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":326760,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[13471,446,2597],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326759"}],"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=326759"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326762,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326759\/revisions\/326762"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/326760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}