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DRDO, IAF test TARA kit that turns ‘dumb’ bombs into precision weapons
The New Indian Express Coimbatore
|May 09, 2026
INDIA on Friday successfully flight-tested Tactical Advanced Range Augmentation (TARA), an indigenously developed glide-bomb kit that can convert conventional unguided bombs into long-range precision weapons, a capability the Indian Air Force (IAF) has so far depended largely on foreign-origin systems to achieve.
The DRDO and IAF carried out the maiden trial of the system off the Odisha coast using a Jaguar strike aircraft as the launch platform. Developed by Hyderabad-based Research Centre Imarat (RCI), TARA is essentially a bolt-on range-extension and precision-guidance kit for the IAF’s existing inventory of High-Speed Low Drag (HSLD) and General Purpose (GP) / dumb bombs.
This story is from the May 09, 2026 edition of The New Indian Express Coimbatore.
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