Jane’s 360:
India’s Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) successfully tested on 5 December an Akash surface-to-air missile (SAM) fitted with an indigenously designed radio-frequency seeker.
Fired from the Integrated Test Range in Chandipur against a ‘Banshee’ aerial target, the Akash is the DRDO’s first SAM to have been fitted with a locally developed seeker, according to a statement by the Indian government’s Press Information Bureau (PIB).
“With this success India has achieved the capability of making any type of surface-to-air missile,” the PIB added in its statement.
