<p>India's first long-range surface-to-air missile (LRSAM) -designated Barak 8 - jointly designed and developed by Israel's IAI and India's DRDO has been successfully flight tested from an Israeli naval Platform, an official said here on Saturday.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The test flight was carried out on Thursday morning when it destroyed an incoming fast-moving air target, with all the subsystems performing as planned and achieving the desired goal of hitting the incoming target.<br /><br />The DRDO has designed and developed the dual pulse propulsion system and other safe arm mechanisms for the first time.<br /><br />The test achieved a major milestone in proving the missle system with complete participation of the ship-borne tracking equipment and other elements.<br /><br />According to a report in The Jerusalem Post, the firing and interception carried out on Lahav, a Sa'ar 5-class Corvette, position near Haifa in the Mediterranean Sea, fired a Barak 8 and destroyed a fast-moving jet-powered drone at 7 am.<br /><br />The missle configuration is the same for both LRSAM and its medium range variant, the official said.<br /><br />More operational flight trials of the LRSAM will soon be conducted soon from the Indian Navy's newest destroyer, INS Kolkata, before it is inducted into various classes of vessels.<br /><br />The LRSAM programme comprises missles, MFSTAR (radar), weapon control system, vertical launcher unit and two-way data link.</p>
<p>India's first long-range surface-to-air missile (LRSAM) -designated Barak 8 - jointly designed and developed by Israel's IAI and India's DRDO has been successfully flight tested from an Israeli naval Platform, an official said here on Saturday.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The test flight was carried out on Thursday morning when it destroyed an incoming fast-moving air target, with all the subsystems performing as planned and achieving the desired goal of hitting the incoming target.<br /><br />The DRDO has designed and developed the dual pulse propulsion system and other safe arm mechanisms for the first time.<br /><br />The test achieved a major milestone in proving the missle system with complete participation of the ship-borne tracking equipment and other elements.<br /><br />According to a report in The Jerusalem Post, the firing and interception carried out on Lahav, a Sa'ar 5-class Corvette, position near Haifa in the Mediterranean Sea, fired a Barak 8 and destroyed a fast-moving jet-powered drone at 7 am.<br /><br />The missle configuration is the same for both LRSAM and its medium range variant, the official said.<br /><br />More operational flight trials of the LRSAM will soon be conducted soon from the Indian Navy's newest destroyer, INS Kolkata, before it is inducted into various classes of vessels.<br /><br />The LRSAM programme comprises missles, MFSTAR (radar), weapon control system, vertical launcher unit and two-way data link.</p>