The missile is jointly developed by DRDO laboratories including Research Centre Imarat, Defence Research and Development Laboratory, Terminal Ballistics Research Laboratory, High Energy Materials Research Laboratory, Integrated Test Range, and Defence Electronics Research Laboratory.The missile was released from a UAV indigenously developed by an Indian start-up, Newspace Research Technologies, Bengaluru. DRDO is actively pursuing the integration of ULPGM weapons with long-range and high-endurance UAVs from several other Indian companies. Development-cum-Production Partners (DcPPs), Adani Defence and Bharat Dynamics Limited, Hyderabad, and 30 MSMEs/start-ups contributed to making this project a grand success.Defence Minister Rajnath Singh congratulated DRDO and the other stakeholders on the development and successful trials of the ULPGM-V3 system. He termed the success as “proof that the Indian industry is now ready to absorb and produce critical defence technologies.”Secretary, Department of Defence R&D and Chairman DRDO, Dr Samir V Kamat, termed the development of such a weapon as “the need of the hour”, while congratulating everyone involved.
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