Smart Anti Airfield Weapon

On January 21, DRDO successfully conducted captive and release trial of indigenously developed Smart Anti-Airfield Weapon (SAAW) from Hawk-i of Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) in Balasore off the Odisha coast.

SAAW

  • SAAW is indigenously designed and developed by DRDO’s Research Centre Imarat (RCI) Hyderabad.
  • This is 125 Kg class smart weapon, capable of engaging ground enemy airfield assets such as radars, bunkers, taxi tracks, and runways etc. up to a range of 100 kms.
  • The high precision guided bomb is light weight as compared to weapon system of the same class. The weapon was earlier successfully test fired from ....
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