“It’s a historic moment”

This Saturday, India carried out its first successful flight test of a long-range hypersonic missiledesigned to transport payloads and with a range of more than 1,500 kilometers, as reported this Sunday by the Ministry of Defense of this Asian country in a press release.

India’s Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) carried out the flight test from Abdul Kalam Island – formerly known as Wheeler Island – off the country’s eastern coast, where India has a missile testing center.

According to the press release, The long-range hypersonic missile was tracked by several telemetry systems.

The missile was developed at the Dr APJ Abdul Karam Missile Complex laboratories as well as other DRDO laboratories and industrial partners, the defense ministry said.

Indian Defense Minister Rajnath Singh called the launch a “significant milestone” in a message published this Sunday on his official profile of the social network

“This is a historic moment and this significant achievement has placed our country in the select group of nations that have such critical and advanced military technological capabilities,” Singh said.

In 2020, India successfully tested another hypersonic flying machine, intended for civil and military use and capable of reaching 7,300 km/hjoining the small club of countries that have successfully developed such advanced hypersonic missile technologies: primarily the United States, China and Russia.