Akash missile successfully
test fired in Chandipuri, Odisha: Interesting facts
As part of a user trial from the ITR, three rounds of test were carried out by the Indian Air Force (IAF) personnel aiming at para-barrel targets.
Its development plan was initiated in 1984, and after a series of tests and improvements, it has been inducted into the Army.
Here are a few facts you must know about the missile:
1. Akash is a supersonic short range surface-to-air missile capable of neutralising aerial threats.
2. The asset of this missile system is its capability to neutralise multiple aerial targets coming from different directions at the same time.
3. The maximum range of this missile is 25 kilometres and it can neutralise targets at a maximum altitude of 20 kilometres. It is meant for neutralising medium range air targets flying at low or medium height.
4. An Akash missile regiment has six launchers with three missiles each. This defence system consists of surveillance and tracking radars, control centres and ground support systems. This all-weather missile system can work from both static and mobile platforms.
5. Akash has been indigenously built. It is a result of 96 per cent indigenisation, with the design being developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation and built by Bharat Dynamics Limited, along with the involvement of Bharat Electronics Limited.
6. The Akash missile will replace the Russian weaponry system that is currently being used by the Army Air Defence Corps.
7. An Air Force variant of the Akash missile has already been inducted.
8. The missile system has been a work in progress for the past few years. It is a part of the five-missile programme of the Integrated Missile Development Programme initiated in 1984.
9. Two regiments have been ordered by the Army initially, each worth about Rs 19,000 crore.
10. Propelled by an Integrated Ramjet Rocket Engine, Akash sustains the speeds without deceleration throughout its flight, without any retardation.
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