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DRDO conducts maiden flight-tests of Indigenous Integrated Air Defence Weapon System

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Sept-Oct 2025

The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) on August 23 successfully carried out the first flight-tests of the Integrated Air Defence Weapon System (IADWS) off the Odisha coast, the Defence Ministry stated in a press release.

DRDO conducts maiden flight-tests of Indigenous Integrated Air Defence Weapon System

The IADWS, developed entirely with indigenous technologies, is a multilayered air defence system that combines Quick Reaction Surface-to-Air Missiles (QRSAM), Advanced Very Short-Range Air Defence System (VSHORADS) missiles, and a high-power laser-based Directed Energy Weapon (DEW). Its operations are coordinated by a Centralised Command and Control Centre developed by the Defence Research and Development Laboratory (DRDL). The VSHORADS and DEW subsystems were built by the Research Centre Ima

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