DRDO successfully conducted first flight tests of the Integrated Air Defence Weapon System (IADWS), a multi-layered air defence system designed to protect Indian armed forces from aerial threats.
Purpose: Multi-layered defence to protect against aerial attacks, combining missile and directed energy technologies.
Components:
Quick Reaction Surface to Air Missiles (QRSAM) – Developed by DRDO
Very Short Range Air Defence System (VSHORADS) – Developed by Research Centre Imarat (RCI), Hyderabad
Directed Energy Weapon (DEW) – Laser-based system developed by Centre for High Energy Systems and Sciences (CHESS), Hyderabad
Control: Centralised Command and Control Centre developed by Defence Research and Development Laboratory, Hyderabad.
QRSAM:
Short-range Surface to Air Missile system.
Designed to shield moving Army armored columns from enemy air attacks.
Highly mobile, with search-and-track capabilities while on the move.
Range: 3 to 30 kilometers.
Equipped with two radars (Battery Surveillance Radar & Battery Multifunction Radar) offering 360-degree coverage.
VSHORADS:
Fourth-generation, miniaturized Man Portable Air Defence System (MANPAD).
Usable by Army, Navy, and Air Force.
Directed Energy Weapon (DEW):
Laser-based weapon system with a range of less than 3 kilometers.
Recently demonstrated successfully by CHESS.
Effective against fixed-wing UAVs and swarm drones by damaging their structure and disabling sensors.
Puts India among a select group of nations possessing such advanced DEW technology.
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