{"id":374830,"date":"2020-09-23T11:20:24","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T05:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=374830"},"modified":"2020-09-23T12:11:26","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T06:41:26","slug":"drdo-conducts-second-successful-flight-test-of-missile-target-vehicle-abhyas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/drdo-conducts-second-successful-flight-test-of-missile-target-vehicle-abhyas\/","title":{"rendered":"DRDO conducts second successful flight-test of missile target vehicle Abhyas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) on Tuesday conducted successful flight-tests of the indigenously-designed Abhyas High-speed Expendable Aerial Target (HEAT) in Balasore. It said in a statement that during trials for the interim test range, two demonstrator vehicles were successfully test flown. The vehicle is a drone that will be used as a target for various missile systems, DRDO said. It can also be used as a decoy aircraft, if needed. <\/p>\n<p>Lauding the achievement, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh tweeted: \u201cThe DRDO achieved a milestone today with the successful flight test of ABHYAS \u2013 High Speed Expandable Aerial Target from ITR Balasore. This can be used as a target for evaluation of various Missile systems.\u201d He also congratulated DRDO and \u201cother stakeholders for this achievement\u201d in his tweet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) on Tuesday conducted successful flight-tests of the indigenously-designed Abhyas High-speed Expendable Aerial Target (HEAT) in Balasore. It said in a statement that during trials for the interim test range, two demonstrator vehicles were successfully test flown. The vehicle is a drone that will be used as a target for various missile systems, DRDO said. It can also be used as a decoy aircraft, if needed. Lauding the achievement, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh tweeted: \u201cThe DRDO achieved a milestone today with the successful flight test of ABHYAS \u2013 High Speed Expandable Aerial Target from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-374830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}