{"id":127851,"date":"2025-04-11T17:10:02","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T17:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/?p=127851"},"modified":"2025-04-11T17:10:02","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T17:10:02","slug":"india-successfully-conducts-trials-of-long-range-glide-bomb-gaurav","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/?p=127851","title":{"rendered":"India Successfully Conducts Trials Of Long-Range Glide Bomb &#8216;Gaurav&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has successfully conducted the release trials of the long-range glide bomb &#8220;Gaurav&#8221; from the Sukhoi aircraft. &#8220;Gaurav&#8221; is a 1,000-kg class glide bomb designed and developed indigenously by the DRDO.<\/p>\n<p>The trials, conducted from April 8 to April 10, successfully demonstrated a range close to 100 km with pinpoint accuracy, the defence ministry said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The trials are paving the way for the induction of the weapon into the Indian Air Force (IAF), it said.<\/p>\n<p>Defence Minister Rajnath Singh complimented the DRDO, the IAF and the industry partners concerned for the successful development trials of &#8220;Gaurav&#8221;.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ins_instory_dv\">\n<div class=\"ins_instory_dv_cont\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The LRGB has been developed indigenously by the DRDO\" src=\"https:\/\/c.ndtvimg.com\/2025-04\/3f6sf1gc_gaurav-bomb_625x300_11_April_25.jpg?im=FaceCrop,algorithm=dnn,width=1200,height=738\" title=\"The LRGB has been developed indigenously by the DRDO\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"ins_instory_dv_caption\">The LRGB has been developed indigenously by the DRDO<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>He said the development of the long-range glide bomb will further enhance the capabilities of the armed forces to a great extent.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The DRDO successfully conducted the release trials of Long-Range Glide Bomb (LRGB) &#8216;Gaurav&#8217; between April 8 to 10 from Su-30 MKI aircraft,&#8221; the ministry said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;During the trials, the weapon was integrated to multiple stations in different warhead configurations, with land target on island,&#8221; it added.<\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">DRDO successfully conducted release trials of the 1000-kg class Long-Range Glide Bomb (LRGB) \u2018Gaurav&#8217; from Su-30 MKI between Apr 8-10, 2025. Achieving 100 km range with pinpoint accuracy, the indigenously developed weapon marks a major boost for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IAF?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IAF<\/a>&#8216;s strike capability.<\/p>\n<p>Read\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/H6aL9Huw0X\">pic.twitter.com\/H6aL9Huw0X<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ministry of Defence, Government of India (@SpokespersonMoD) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpokespersonMoD\/status\/1910670008507683226?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 11, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The LRGB has been developed indigenously by the DRDO&#8217;s Research Centre Imarat and Armament Research and Development Establishment.<\/p>\n<p>Senior DRDO and IAF officials participated in and reviewed these trials.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The system has been realised with the support of development-cum-production partners &#8212; Adani Defence Systems and Technologies, Bharat Forge and various MSMEs,&#8221; the ministry said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The trials are paving the way towards induction of the weapon into the IAF,&#8221; it added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Centre for Military Airworthiness and Certification and Directorate General of Aeronautical Quality Assurance contributed towards certification and quality assurance,&#8221; the ministry said in a statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><i>(Disclaimer: New Delhi Television is a subsidiary of AMG Media Networks Limited, an Adani Group Company.)<\/i><\/p>\n<p>\u200bThe Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has successfully conducted the release trials of the long-range glide bomb &#8220;Gaurav&#8221; from the Sukhoi aircraft. &#8220;Gaurav&#8221; is a 1,000-kg class glide bomb designed and developed by the DRDO.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has successfully conducted the release trials of the long-range glide bomb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":127852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/l0b70mhc_long-range-glide-bomb_625x300_11_April_25-aCU3t6.jpeg",447,251,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/l0b70mhc_long-range-glide-bomb_625x300_11_April_25-aCU3t6-150x150.jpeg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/l0b70mhc_long-range-glide-bomb_625x300_11_April_25-aCU3t6-300x168.jpeg",300,168,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/l0b70mhc_long-range-glide-bomb_625x300_11_April_25-aCU3t6.jpeg",447,251,false],"large":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/l0b70mhc_long-range-glide-bomb_625x300_11_April_25-aCU3t6.jpeg",447,251,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/l0b70mhc_long-range-glide-bomb_625x300_11_April_25-aCU3t6.jpeg",447,251,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/l0b70mhc_long-range-glide-bomb_625x300_11_April_25-aCU3t6.jpeg",447,251,false],"morenews-large":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/l0b70mhc_long-range-glide-bomb_625x300_11_April_25-aCU3t6.jpeg",447,251,false],"morenews-medium":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/l0b70mhc_long-range-glide-bomb_625x300_11_April_25-aCU3t6.jpeg",447,251,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"","author_link":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/?author=0"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/?cat=1\" rel=\"category\">Uncategorized<\/a>","tag_info":"Uncategorized","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/127852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}