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BENGALURU, JAN 21
State-owned Hindustan Aeronautics Limited on Thursday successfully test-fired a Smart Anti-Airfield Weapon (SAAW) from the Hawk-i aircraft off the coast of Odisha.
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The aircraft flown by HAL test pilots Wing Commander (Retd) P Awasthi and Wg Cdr (Retd) M Patel executed the weapon release in a textbook manner and all mission objectives were met. The indigenous stand-off weapon, developed by Defence Research and Development Organisation’s Research Centre Imarat (RCI), is the first smart weapon fired from an Indian Hawk-Mk132, the HAL said in a statement.
The telemetry and tracking systems captured all the mission events confirming the success of the trials.
“The Company owned Hawk-i platform is being extensively used for certification of systems and weapons developed indigenously by DRDO and CSIR labs,” R Madhavan, CMD, HAL, said.
Arup Chatterjee, Director, Engineering and Research and Development, HAL said HAL is indigenously enhancing the training and combat capability of Hawk-i.
The HAL said it was in discussions with the Indian Armed Forces for the integration of various weapons on Hawk platform.