India Fight-Tests 4th Generation Very Short Range Air Defence Missile in Pokhran

New Delhi: India’s Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) conducted three successful flight tests of a very short-range air defence missile system at Rajasthan’s Pokhran firing ranges.

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday congratulated the DRDO and the Indian Army for the flight tests of the fourth-generation VSHORADS (Very Short-Range Air Defence System) missiles and wrote on X, “The @DRDO_India has successfully conducted three flight tests of the 4th Generation, technically advanced miniaturised weapon system VSHORADS, from Pokhran.”

This new missile, equipped with modern technologies, would give further technological boost to the armed forces against aerial threats, the message added.

VSHORADS is a man-portable air defence system designed and developed indigenously by Research Centre Imarat (RCI) in collaboration with other DRDO laboratories and Indian industry partners.

It has a miniaturised reaction control system (RCS) and integrated avionics, the defence ministry said in a statement.