SMART ANTI-AIRFIELD WEAPON

(SAAW) BY DRDO
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 SUCCESSFULLY TESTED BY DRDO
THE DEFENCE Research and Development Organisation (DRDO)
Thursday (Jan 21) conducted a successful trial of the indigenously
developed Smart Anti-Airfield Weapon (SAAW) off the Odisha coast
from the Hawk-i jet of Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL).

This was the ninth successful test of the system

conducted over the last five years.
While earlier tests have been conducted from Jaguar, this time HAL
Hawk-1 was used, thus expanding the operating scope of weapons
system.
There are plans to integrate the weapon with the Dassault Rafale.

Hawk Jaguar
 ATMANIRBHAR BHARAT
It is the first smart weapon to be fired from an Indian Hawk Mk132
trainer aircraft.

“HAL has been focusing on the Atmanirbhar Bharat campaign. The

company-owned Hawk-I platform is being extensively used for
certification of systems and weapons developed indigenously by DRDO
and Council of Scientific and Industrial Research labs,” HAL chairman R
Madhavan said.
 ABOUT SAAW
Its development began around 2012-13, with crucial inputs from the
Indian Air Force and the first test was carried out in 2016.

The weapon is designed to strike ground targets, especially adversary

airfield infrastructure or similar strategically important installations.
ABOUT SAAW
 ABOUT SAAW
SAAW is indigenously designed and developed by DRDO’s Research
Centre Imarat (RCI) Hyderabad.

It is a 125-kilogram class smart weapon, capable of engaging ground

enemy airfield assets such as radars, bunkers, taxi tracks, and runways,
up to a range of 100 kilometres.

The high precision guided bomb is lightweight compared to weapon

system of the same class.
 ABOUT SAAW
"this is a sort of guided bomb and it will be much much
cheaper than a missile or rocket, the reason being that
it is not having a propulsion, it is making use of the
aircraft's propulsion. It can go and land in a place we
want."
 SUBSEQUENT TEST AFTER RUDRAM
The test of SAAW comes after another weapon system designed to
target enemy radar and communication assets, Rudram, was tested in
October last year.
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