Indigenous Anti Tank Guided Missile, Amogha-III tested successfully

Tags: Defence Science and Technology

Bharat Dynamics (BDL) has successfully conducted a field firing test of its latest 3rd generation man-portable Anti Tank Guided Missile (ATGM), Amogha-III. 

About Amogha-III Missile

• The Amogha-III Missile has been developed indigenously under Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme (IGMDP).

• It is a third generation fire-and-forget Anti-Tank Guided Missile.

• Developed by the Research and Development Division of BDL, the missile also has a dual-mode IIR seeker with a range of 200 to 2500 metres.

• The missile can be fired in lock-on-before launch (LOBL) mode and its anti-armour tandem warhead can penetrate in excess of 650 mm beyond Explosive Reactive Armour (ERA).

About Anti-tank Guided Missile (ATGM)

• An anti-tank guided missile is a guided missile designed primarily to hit and destroy heavily armored military vehicles.

• These missiles can be carried by a single soldier as a large tripod-mounted weapon.