Quick Reaction Surface to Air Missile system achieves major milestone

Context: The Quick Reaction Surface to Air Missile system has achieved a major milestone by a direct hit on to a Banshee Pilotless target aircraft at medium range and medium altitude.

• India’s Quick Reaction Surface to Air Missile (QRSAM) system achieved a major milestone on when it directly hit a pilotless target aircraft (PTA) at medium range and medium altitude.

QRSAM

• Quick Reaction Surface-to-Air Missile (QRSAM) is a missile developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) in association with Bharat Electronics Limited and Bharat Dynamics Limited for the Indian Army.
• This missile is an all-weather, all-terrain surface-to-air missile equipped with electronic counter measures against jamming by aircraft radars.
• QRSAM uses solid-fuel propellant and has a range of 25–30 km. The single-staged missile utilized by the system is propelled using solid propellants.
• The system is capable of detecting and tracking targets on the move and engaging targets with short halts.
• It is designed to give air defence coverage against strike columns of the Army.
• Propelled by a single stage solid propellant rocket motor, the sophisticated missile uses indigenous subsystems.
• The missile is cannisterised for transportation and launch using a mobile launcher, capable of carrying six canisterised missiles.

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