India successfully test fires QR-SAM from Chandipur off Odisha Coast

ONI Bureau:  India successfully test fired indigenously developed Quick Reaction, Surface to Air Missile (QR-SAM) was test-fired for the first time from the integrated test range at Balasore district’s Chandipur off Odisha coast at 12:39 pm.

BDL, BEL and DRDO have co-developed Indigenous QR-SAM (Quick Reaction, Surface to Air Missile) with a range of 30 km.

The QR-SAM Project is one of the fast-tracked projects after India scrapped plans to procure imported systems to replace ageing Quick reaction Air Defence systems in both Indian Army and Indian Navy.