{"id":178854,"date":"2022-04-12T19:52:58","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T14:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=178854"},"modified":"2022-04-12T19:53:55","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T14:23:55","slug":"anti-tank-guided-missile-helina-successfully-flight-tested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/anti-tank-guided-missile-helina-successfully-flight-tested\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Tank Guided Missile \u2018HELINA\u2019 successfully flight tested"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Defence Research and Development Organization(DRDO) along with the Indian Army and Air Force has successfully flight-tested \u201cHelina\u201d\u00a0 from an advanced light helicopter (ALH).<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is HELINA?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">HELINA (Helicopter based NAG) is a third-generation fire and forget class anti-tank guided missile(ATGM) system mounted on the Advanced Light Helicopter(ALH).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Developed by<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Defence Research and Development Laboratory(DRDL) \u2013 DRDO.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>Key Features of HELINA<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><b>Range:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It has a maximum range of 7 kilometres.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It has <b>all-weather, day and night capabilit<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>y<\/strong> and can defeat battle tanks with conventional armour as well as explosive reactive armour.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has been developed for integration with choppers in both the Army and the Air Force. <\/span>The <b>Air Force version of Helina <\/b>is sometimes referred to as <b>Dhruvastra.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">missile can engage targets <\/span><b>both in direct hit mode as well as top attack mode.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The missile is <\/span><b>guided by an Infrared Imaging Seeker(IIR) <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">which makes it one of the most advanced Anti-Tank Weapons in the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> This post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201c<\/b><b>Anti-Tank Guided Missile \u2018HELINA\u2019 successfully flight tested<\/b><b>\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> PIB <\/b>on<b> 11th April 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the News? Defence Research and Development Organization(DRDO) along with the Indian Army and Air Force has successfully flight-tested \u201cHelina\u201d\u00a0 from an advanced light helicopter (ALH). What is HELINA? HELINA (Helicopter based NAG) is a third-generation fire and forget class anti-tank guided missile(ATGM) system mounted on the Advanced Light Helicopter(ALH). Developed by: Defence Research&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/anti-tank-guided-missile-helina-successfully-flight-tested\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Anti-Tank Guided Missile \u2018HELINA\u2019 successfully flight tested<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,9],"tags":[3590],"class_list":["post-178854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-pib","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1703755198},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}