Bhubaneswar: On Thursday, Defence Research & Development Organisation successfully test fired Long Range Surface to Air Missile from naval warship INS Chennai off the coast of Odisha.
The LR-SAM is also known as Barak 8 is an Indian-Israel surface-to-air missile. The missile is designed to defend the country against any airborne threat including aircraft, helicopters, anti-ship missiles, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, ballistic missile, cruise missiles and combat jets.
The Barak 8 LRSAM missile defence system has been jointly developed by IAI and India's state-owned DRDO in collaboration with defense contractors in India and Israel.