Place of origin India Operationalrange 2.8 km | In service 2016(proposed) | |
Type Anti-tank guided missile Manufacturer Bharat Dynamics Limited (BDL) | ||
Amogha-1, is a second generation, Anti-Tank Guided Missile which has pin point accuracy for a range up to 2.8 km. It is under development by Bharat Dynamics at Hyderabad. It has also become the first missile designed and tested by the Bharat Dynamics Ltd company.
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The missile will be produced in two versions. The land version has already been tested. The IR version of the missile uses a thermal intelligent vision and then attacks the target.
Missile guidance is conducted by centroid tracking and Terminal homing. The missile moves near the target in a parabolic path and does not follow a completely parabolic path like conventional projectiles. It then bends at a steep angle and to attack on the target.
Testing
The missile has a range of 2.5 to 2.8 kilometers. It is reported that two missiles were tested in September 2015 at the Babina Army Range in Madhya Pradesh. and both hit target with pin point accuracy. These tests were significantly recognized as finding no big difference between launching the European and indigenous ATMs. The performance is measured by both the gunner and commander of the Advanced Target Acquisition systems.
Future Targets
Amogha will be configured to be used on the Advanced Light Helicopter and the HAL Light Combat Helicopter. Soon it will have Land version, Air-launched version and man portable versions. Once inducted in the Armed and Air Forces, the missile will be integrated with the attacking version of the Advanced Light Helicopter (ALH) Dhruv, which is the finest produced of Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL). The Indian Army has been awaiting the induction of this kind of missiles for a long time now. In absence of any indigenous system, it has to use the French made anti-tank missiles Milan.
The indigenous missile also eases the burden of the world's largest arms buyer country and it plans to produce such missiles at a big scale. The government has also raised the foreign investment cap on India's defence industries in 2015 to speed up the military's modernization.