India successfully test fires anti-radiation missile 'Rudram-1'

The flight testing of the missile comes in the midst of India's bitter border row with China in eastern Ladakh.

In a major milestone, India on Friday successfully test fired a new generation anti-radiation missile from a Su-30 MKI fighter aircraft of the Indian Air Force that can destroy a wide variety of enemy radars, air defence systems and communication networks from large stand-off ranges, officials said.
 
The missile, Rudram-1, is India's first indigenously developed anti-radiation weapon system and it was test-fired by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), at an integrated test range in Balasore in Odisha at around 10:30 AM, officials said.
 
They said the missile, having a speed of Mach two or twice the