DRDO successfully conducts flight test of HEAT Abhyas
On Thursday, the Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO) successfully conducted a flight test of the Abhyas, an indigenously built high-speed expendable aerial target (HEAT) off the coast of Odisha, at the Integrated Test Range (ITR) in Chandipur. During the flying test, a high subsonic speed trajectory was exhibited at a very low altitude with high endurance. During launch, two boosters supplied initial acceleration, and a small turbojet engine was utilised to maintain a high subsonic speed for a long time. During the flight, the Bengaluru-based industrial partner's indigenous data link was successfully flown and tested. The system's performance during the course of the flight has been confirmed by data collected by a variety of range instruments. This indigenous unmanned aerial target system was created by the Aeronautical Development Establishment (ADE), a Bengaluru-based DRDO laboratory, in collaboration with other DRDO laboratories to suit the requirements of