{"id":327154,"date":"2020-10-01T15:48:44","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T15:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=327154"},"modified":"2020-10-01T15:48:45","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T15:48:45","slug":"india-successfully-test-fires-laser-guided-anti-tank-guided-missile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/india-successfully-test-fires-laser-guided-anti-tank-guided-missile\/","title":{"rendered":"India successfully test-fires laser-guided anti-tank guided missile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/india-successfully-test-fires-laser-guided-anti-tank-guided-missile\/atgm\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-327155\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-327155 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/atgm-300x187.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"616\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/atgm-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/atgm.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/atgm-696x433.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/atgm-675x420.jpg 675w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 616px) 100vw, 616px\" \/><\/a>The indigenously developed Laser-Guided Anti Tank Guided Missile (ATGM) was successfully test-fired on 1<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0Oct 2020 defeating a target located at longer range. The test was conducted from MBT Arjun at KK ranges (ACC&amp;S) Ahmednagar in\u00a0continuation of successful trial done on 22nd Sep 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">The ATGM employs a tandem HEAT warhead to defeat Explosive Reactive Armour (ERA) protected armoured vehicles in ranges from 1.5 to 5 km. It has been developed with multiple-platform launch capability and is currently undergoing technical evaluation trials from 120 mm rifled gun\u00a0of MBT Arjun.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">This Laser Guided Missile has been developed by Armament R&amp;D Establishment (ARDE), Pune in association with High Energy Materials Research Laboratory (HEMRL), Pune and Instruments Research &amp; Development Establishment (IRDE), Dehradun.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh congratulated DRDO for this successful feat. Secretary DD R&amp;D and Chairman DRDO congratulated DRDO personnel for this achievement which paves the way for Atmanirbhar Bharat pledge of Hon\u2019ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The indigenously developed Laser-Guided Anti Tank Guided Missile (ATGM) was successfully test-fired on 1st\u00a0Oct 2020 defeating a target located at longer range. The test was conducted from MBT Arjun at KK ranges (ACC&amp;S) Ahmednagar in\u00a0continuation of successful trial done on 22nd Sep 2020. The ATGM employs a tandem HEAT warhead to defeat Explosive Reactive Armour [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":327155,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[13538,446],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327154"}],"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\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327154"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327157,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327154\/revisions\/327157"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/327155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}