The Navy crossed a milestone in enhancing its anti-air warfare capability, with the maiden “cooperative engagement firing” of the medium-range surface-to-air missiles.
This was achieved by network-centric operations that helped to combine the capabilities of all military platforms in a formation, the Navy said on Friday.
“The firing was undertaken on the western seaboard by the INS Kochi and the INS Chennai, wherein the missiles of both ships were controlled by one ship to intercept different aerial targets at extended ranges,” the Navy said in a statement. The trial was carried out by the Navy, the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI).
The missile was developed by the Defence Research and Development Laboratory (DRDL), Hyderabad, a DRDO laboratory, and IAI. It is made by Bharat Dynamics Limited.
