NEW DELHI: India’s first indigenous third generation antitank missile, “Nag” (serpent) was successfully flight tested Nov 29.
According to defence ministry Officials, the missile was successfully tested at the interim test range at Chandipur in the eastern coastal state of Orissa that morning.
Defence scientists said the missile was monitored successfully during its controlled flight. It has fully met the objective of the trials, they announced.
Defence scientists were overjoyed in achieving yet another success after the successful test firing of the country’s intermediate range missile ‘Akash’ and surface to surface missile “prithvi”.
They said more tests would be carried out before the induction of the missiles in the armed forces by early 1994,
The scientific adviser to the defence ministry Dr, V.S. Aunt a chalam, has described nag as more than a match for any comparable missile in the armory of Nato or the Warsaw pact.
Article extracted from this publication >> December 14, 1990
