SMART

  • SMART:  Missile Assisted Release of Torpedo
  • DRDO has taken up a project to develop and demonstrate a missile assisted release of light weight  anti-submarine torpedo system for ASW operations far  beyond torpedo range 50-650km.
  • During august 2018 ,penumatic ejection test of TAL(Tarpedo Advanced Light)dummy tarpedo from canister was carried out at 150 bar which establised the design of safe shear pin failure.
  • Ejection speed of tarpedo was also estimated during the trails.
  • India on monday sucessfully flighted tested its indigenously developed SMART torpoed system ,which the DRDO said will be a "Game Changer" in anti-suvmarine warfare,marking yet another milestone in stengthening the country's maritime strategic capabalities,defence sources said.
  • The SMART was tested at 1145 hours from the APJ Abdul kalam Island,earlier known as wheeler Island ,off the odisha coast. It  met all the objectives "Flawlessly".
  • For (ASW) Anti-submarine warfare operations far beyond the torpedo range.This launch and demontration is significant in establishing anti-submarine warfare capabalities , a defence statement said .
  • SMART when launched from warship or a  truck-based coastal battery,takes off like a regular supersonic missile .
  • It covers most of its flight in the air at lower altitudes with two way data link from the warship or an airborne-submarine target detection system and provides the extra location of the hostile submarine to correct its flight path midway.
  • Just when it approches close enough to the submerged submarine , the missile will eject the torpedo system into the water and autonomous torpedo will start moving towards its target to take out the submarine .
  • SMART has been sucessfully tested on 5th october 2020 at 11;45hrs from the wheeler Island off the coast of odisha.
  • All  the misions objectives including missile flight upto the range and altitude,eparation of the nose cone , release of tarpedo and deployment of velocity reduction mechanism(VRM) have been meet perfectly.
  • The tracking stations (Radars , electro optical systems) along the coast and the telemetry stations including down range ships monitored all the events.
  • A number of DRDO laboratories including DRDL, RCIhyderabad, ADRDE agra, NSTL visakhapatanam  have developed the technologies reqired for SMART.
  • Raksha Mantri Shri Rajanath singh congratulated the DRDO scientists for the important feat.
  • Secretary DD R&D &chairman DRDO Dr G Satheesh reddy, said that SMART is a game changer technology demonstration in the anti-submarine welfare.
  • Arocket or missile -launched torpedo is a weapon delivary arrangement that was introduced decades ago  by the soviet as well as the US navies,said meritime affarirs expert rare admiral sudarshan shrikhande.
  • He said these  were capable of striking at realtively shorter ranges with torpedoes or relatively shorter ranges with torpedoes or even nuclear depth charges. 
  • He said as ship-borne helicopters  improved and maritime patrol aircraft became  better equipped with sensors ; missile -launched  torpedo systems did  not  find favour as onboard  weapon and launcher volumes were prioritised for anti-ship  , land attack and anti-air missiles .
  • However ,if accurate submarine targetting info is available , then a long - range  ordnance delivery capability , especially from ashore could be something that will be useful once again .
  • After all , at this moment , land -based anti -submarine warfare patrol aircraft that can deliver ordance at long ranges are amongst the most effective ways to target submarines.
  • A supersonic missile capable of a few hundred kms flight can, in theory ,drop a capable lightweight torpedo at the best-known position of an enemy submarien , shrikhande said .
  • An effective torpedo as the payload was very important "Ultimately the deployment of the SMART system would depend on coast and mission needs of the navy".
  • India as conducted a series of significant wepon tests in recnt weeks .
  • On saturday india as tested a new version Nuclear-capable hypersonic Shaurya misssile that as the range 750km, Days after the extended -range brahmos supersonic cruise missile was sucessfully tested.
  • The cruise missile can hit targets 400km away its range increased from the exixting 290km. 
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