<p style="font-weight: 400;">India today successfully tested the Supersonic Missile Assisted Release of Torpedo (SMART), an anti-submarine weapon system developed by the Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO).</p>
Congratulating the DRDO for its achievement, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh tweeted, "The DRDO has successfully flight tested the Supersonic Missile assisted release of Torpedo, SMART. This will be a major technology breakthrough for stand-off capability in anti-submarine warfare. I congratulate DRDO and other stakeholders for this significant achievement."
<p style="font-weight: 400;">DRDO Chairman G. Satheesh Reddy said that SMART is a game-changer technology demonstration in Anti-Submarine Warfare.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">The DRDO in an official press release said, that "supersonic missile-assisted release of the torpedo (SMART) has been successfully flight tested at 11:45 hrs from Wheeler Island off the coast of Odisha. All the mission objectives including missile flight up to the range and altitude, separation of the nose cone, the release of Torpedo, and deployment of Velocity Reduction Mechanism (VRM) has been met perfectly."</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">“The tracking stations (Radars, Electro-Optical Systems) along the coast and the telemetry stations including down range ships monitored all the events,” the release said.</p>
It is a missile-assisted release of lightweight anti-submarine torpedo system for anti-submarine warfare operations far beyond the torpedo range. This launch and demonstration is significant in establishing anti-submarine warfare capabilities.
<p style="font-weight: 400;">A number of DRDO laboratories including Defence Research and Development Laboratory (DRDL), Research Centre Imarat in Hyderabad, Aerial Delivery Research and Development Establishment, Agra, Naval Science and Technological Laboratory (NSTL) Visakhapatnam have developed the technologies required for SMART.</p>.