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09/04/22 13:59 PM IST

DRDO successfully flight-tests Solid Fuel Ducted Ramjet technology

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  • Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) successfully flight tested Solid Fuel Ducted Ramjet (SFDR) booster at the Integrated Test Range (ITR), Chandipur off the coast of Odisha.
About SFDR 
  • The SFDR-based propulsion enables the missile to intercept aerial threats at very long range at supersonic speeds.
  • The performance of the system has been confirmed from the data captured by a number of range instruments like Telemetry, Radar and Electro Optical Tracking Systems deployed by ITR.
  • The SFDR has been developed by Defence Research and Development Laboratory, Hyderabad in collaboration with other DRDO laboratories such as Research Centre Imarat, Hyderabad and High Energy Materials Research Laboratory, Pune.
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