Medium Range Surface to Air Missile (MRSAM)

(Ministry of Defence)

WHAT

The Indian Navy achieved a significant milestone in enhancing its Anti Air Warfare Capability with the maiden cooperative engagement firing of the Medium Range Surface to Air Missile (MRSAM).

These Surface to Air Missiles are fitted onboard the Kolkata Class Destroyers and would also be fitted on all future major warships of the Indian Navy.

With the successful proving of this cooperative mode of engagement, the Indian Navy has become a part of a select group of Navies that have this niche capability.

This capability significantly enhances the combat effectiveness of the Indian Navy thereby providing an operational edge over potential adversaries.

 

MEDIUM RANGE SURFACE TO AIR MISSILE (MRSAM)

• DRDL Hyderabad, DRDO Lab, has jointly developed this missile in collaboration with Israel Aerospace Industries.
• The MRSAM has been manufactured by Bharat Dynamics Limited, India.
• The missile is designed to provide the armed forces with air defence capability against a variety of aerial threats at medium ranges.
• Each MRSAM weapon system comprises of one command and control system, one tracking radar, missiles, and mobile launcher systems.
• The mobile launcher is used to transport, emplace and launch up to eight canisterised missiles in two stacks. It can fire the missiles in single or ripple firing modes from the vertical firing position.
• The combat management system simplifies the process of engaging a variety of threats.
• It identifies and tracks the threat using tracking radar.
• The MRSAM missile is equipped with an advanced active radar radio frequency (RF) seeker, advanced rotating phased array radar and a bidirectional data link.
• The MRSAM surface-to-air missile is powered by a dual-pulse solid propulsion system developed by DRDO.
• The propulsion system, coupled with a thrust vector control system, allows the missile to move at a maximum speed of Mach 2.
• The weapon has the ability to engage multiple targets simultaneously at ranges of 70km.

 

Source: PIB

 

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