{"id":89481,"date":"2020-07-26T19:55:29","date_gmt":"2020-07-26T14:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=17078"},"modified":"2020-07-26T19:55:29","modified_gmt":"2020-07-26T14:25:29","slug":"dhruvastra-drdo-test-fires-made-in-india-anti-tank-guided-nag-missile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/dhruvastra-drdo-test-fires-made-in-india-anti-tank-guided-nag-missile\/","title":{"rendered":"Dhruvastra: DRDO test fires \u2018made in India\u2019 anti-tank guided Nag missile"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong>Defence Research and Development Organisation has successfully conducted flight trials of Dhruvastra.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Dhruvastra: <\/strong>It is a variant of the HELINA(Helicopter based NAG) Weapon System being inducted into the Indian Air Force(IAF).<ul><li>HELINA is a third generation fire and forget class anti-tank guided missile(ATGM) system mounted on the Advanced Light Helicopter(ALH).<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>Purpose: <\/strong>The missile can be<strong> <\/strong>fired to target enemy battle tanks, armoured vehicles and bunkers.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Nag Missile: <\/strong>It is a third generation fire and forget class anti-tank guided missile(ATGM) system developed under Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme(IGMDP).<ul><li>The other missiles under IGMDP are <strong>Prithvi<\/strong>(Short range surface to surface ballistic missile) <strong>Agni<\/strong>(Intermediate Range surface to surface ballistic Missile), <strong>Trishul<\/strong>(Short range low level surface to air missile) and <strong>Akash<\/strong>(Medium range surface to air missile).<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>India\u2019s Nag range of missiles: DRDO<\/strong> has developed a number of state-of-the-art anti-tank missiles in the \u2018Nag\u2019 range.These include:<ul><li><strong>Prospina<\/strong> which is used by the infantry and has a range of up to 4km<\/li><li><strong>Man Portable Anti-tank Guided Missile(MPATGM)<\/strong> which can be launched from the shoulder and the&nbsp;<\/li><li><strong>Helina (Helicopter based NAG) <\/strong>missiles which are customised for a helicopter-led assault on the enemy\u2019s tanks.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Defence Research and Development Organisation has successfully conducted flight trials of Dhruvastra. Facts: Dhruvastra: It is a variant of the HELINA(Helicopter based NAG) Weapon System being inducted into the Indian Air Force(IAF). HELINA is a third generation fire and forget class anti-tank guided missile(ATGM) system mounted on the Advanced Light Helicopter(ALH). Purpose: The missile&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/dhruvastra-drdo-test-fires-made-in-india-anti-tank-guided-nag-missile\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dhruvastra: DRDO test fires \u2018made in India\u2019 anti-tank guided Nag missile<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1760],"tags":[6932,2217],"class_list":["post-89481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-polity-and-nation","tag-dhruvastra","tag-drdo","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704829207},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89481","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}