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Derby air-to-air beyond visual range missile
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- Indigenously developed light combat aircraft (LCA) Tejas successfully fired Derby air-to-air beyond visual range missile (BVRM) off the Goa coast.
- The successful test demonstrated its overall capability as effective supersonic combat jet.
- Tejas was developed by state-run HAL and Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA) of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO).
- Derby is short to medium range BVR Air-to-Air missile. It is a dual-use missile (air-to-air and surface-to-air).
- It is developed jointly by Israeli armament development agency Rafael and Israel Aircraft Industries MBT.
- It has look-down and shoot-down capability, fire and forget mode and advanced Electronic countermeasures (ECCM) tailored to customer’s operational requirements.
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