At present it may be a hit to kill as these trials are done without explosives handling for safety purpose, and ARDE released the warhead tender just a while ago. Once the system is established, then the qualified explosive warhead is attached and tested by the forces under user trial. For RCI and industry partners, it is non explosives based work. To test live warhead, you need prior specially qualified manpower, equipment, procedure, fire safety and licensed QA agency involvement among other things.The media is calling it a hit-to-kill missile when it has a 2kg warhead!
India successfully test fires 3 short-range air defence missiles at Pokhran
DRDO successfully conducted three flight tests of the VSHORADS missile system at Pokhran, demonstrating its hit-to-kill capability.www.indiatoday.in
Compared to igla, its ok. With Mistral,stinger & RBS 70 its damn slow.
Yes but the India Today report makes it sound as though the missile is HTK by design. See below.
Desi MistralDRDO successfully conducts successive flight-trials of Very Short-Range Air Defence System off the Odisha coast
Posted On: 01 FEB 2025 8:32PM by PIB Delhi
Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO) has successfully conducted three successive flight-trials of Very Short-Range Air Defence System (VSHORADS) from Chandipur off the coast of Odisha. These tests were carried out against high-speed targets flying at very low altitude.
During all the three flight-tests, the missiles intercepted and completely destroyed the targets having reduced thermal signature mimicking low flying drones at different flying conditions. The flight-tests were carried out in final deployment configuration where in two field operators carried out weapon readiness, target acquisition and missile firing.
The flight data captured by various range instruments like Telemetry, Electro-Optical Tracking System and Radar deployed by Integrated Test Range, Chandipur, confirmed the pin-point accuracy and established the unique capability of VSHORADS missile system in neutralizing drones along with other classes of aerial threats. The flight-tests were witnessed by senior officials of DRDO, Armed Forces and development and production partners.
VSHORADS is a Man Portable Air Defence system designed and developed indigenously by Research Center Imarat in collaboration with other DRDO laboratories and Development cum Production Partners. The missile system has the capability to meet the needs of all the three branches of the Armed Forces, viz. Indian Army, Navy and Air Force.
Wasn't there a larger version of the VSHORAD under development? I want our version of the RIM-116 missile.
I wish it had a longer range. Maybe we could remove the gas ejection system of the VSHORAD when we make a RAM like launcher, that won't have a human operator
You mean China? Anza is a rebadged QW-series weapon, license produced in PK. Just like their new Faaz AAM which is a copy of the Chinese SD-10.
