DRDO conducts historic flight trial of long-range hypersonic missile | India Information

NEW DELHI: The Defence Analysis and Improvement Organisation (DRDO) on Saturday carried out a flight trial of a long-range hypersonic missile from Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Island off the coast of Odisha.
The hypersonic missile that the DRDO examined is designed to hold numerous payloads for ranges higher than 1500 km for all of the companies of the Indian armed forces.
The missile has been indigenously developed by the laboratories of Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Missile Advanced, Hyderabad together with numerous different DRDO laboratories and Trade Companions.
The flight trial was carried out within the presence of senior scientists of DRDO and the armed forces.

Defence minister Rajnath Singh congratulated DRDO on the profitable flight trial of the missile, calling it a “main milestone” for the nation.
“India has achieved a significant milestone by efficiently conducting flight trial of lengthy vary hypersonic missile from Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Island, off-the-coast of Odisha. This can be a historic second and this important achievement has put our nation within the group of choose nations having capabilities of such important and superior army applied sciences. I congratulate Crew DRDO, our armed forces and the Trade for stupendous achievement,” Rajnath Singh wrote on X.

How hypersonic missile works

Hypersonic missiles journey at greater than 5 occasions the velocity of sound within the higher environment – or about 6,200 km per hour (3,850 mph). That is slower than an intercontinental ballistic missile, however the form of a hypersonic glide car permits it to manoeuvre towards a goal or away from defences.
Combining a glide car with a missile that may launch it partially into orbit – a so-called fractional orbital bombardment system (FOBS) – might strip adversaries of response time and conventional defences mechanisms. Intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), against this, carry nuclear warheads on ballistic trajectories that journey into area however by no means attain orbit.