Industry Odisha Bureau, Jun 2: Adding one more feather to its glorious cap of indigenous defence manufacturing ecosystem as well as marking a milestone of an improved national security, India’s Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has successfully tested its indigenously designed precision-guided ‘High Calibre Bomb’.
Notably, “High-Calibre bombs are generally larger and heavier munitions designed to inflict substantial damage against fortified targets, military infrastructure, bunkers, command centres, airfields, logistics hubs, and strategic installations.”
A video report, released in this regard, “not only portrays the remarkable achievement of the test conducted by the DRDO, but also DRDO’s ability to move from concept development to successful field trials.”
So far the battlefield role of a bomb is concerned, “It is a military weapon designed to achieve a specific operational objective, while its effectiveness depends on the ‘payload weight’, ‘penetration capability’, ‘accuracy’, ‘blast radius’, and ‘target type’.”
This DRDO-tested ‘High Calibre Bomb’ is claimed to be ‘precision-guided’ as the precision-strike weapons have several advantages like, ‘higher accuracy’, following which “the accurate targeting minimizes unintended damage to nearby civilian infrastructure, and the airforce may need fewer sorties and fewer weapons to achieve the same operational objective.”
Moreover, this type of ‘precision-guided high-calibre bombs’ can be used against ‘underground facilities’, ‘reinforced bunkers’, ‘command centres’, missile storage sites called silos’, and ‘air defence installations’.
Pertinent to note, “Present warfare has been demonstrating that battlefield superiority is increasingly dependent on ‘precision targeting’, ‘long-range strike capability’, and ‘technologically self-sufficiency’.”
Thus, defence analysts opine: “The more India’s indigenous defence manufacturing ecosystem get matured and prove to be self-reliant, the more it could reduce reliance on foreign-origin precision weapons, and above all, make a mark in the global defence market.”
