HAL’s Hawk-i test-fires Smart Anti-Airfield Weapon

BENGALURU: State-owned aircraft maker Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd on Thursday successfully test fired a Smart Anti-Airfield Weapon (SAAW) from the Hawk-i aircraft off the coast of Odisha. The indigenous stand-off weapon developed by the Research Centre Imarat (RCI), DRDO, is the first smart weapon fired from an Indian Hawk-Mk132. The SAAW is an aircraft-launched, advanced, precision strike weapon of 125 kg category used to attack and destroy enemy airfield assets such as radars, bunkers, taxi tracks and runways within a range of 100 km. It has been earlier successfully test fired from Jaguar aircraft, said a statement issued by the HAL.