India’s Nag Anti-tank Guided Missile To Undergo Final User Acceptance Trials In Few Days

India’s Defense Research Development Organization (DRDO) will undergo its final user acceptance trials of its Nag, Gen-3 Fire and Forget Anti-Tank Guided Missile in the next few days.

DRDO had to postpone the trials after it cited technical reasons in the 'Qualification Testing of the Rocket Motor' used in the missile as the ground for rescheduling or the delay.

“The DRDO is working on a slightly reduced range of Nag, the indigenously-built third generation anti-tank guided missile,” Director General S. Christopher Thursday.

"The missile identifies the target (tank) through infra-red seeking. So if the environment is cool and even if the differential temperature is just two degree, it can identify the target," he told reporters here.

"But if the tank is left for hours in summer (sun), that is what we did during the recent trial, the temperature difference between the tank and the environment is negligible and that is the time we cannot meet the targeted four km range,"

Christopher, when asked, admitted that problems still persist with the Nag anti-tank guided missile that was to undergo its final user acceptance trials by the Army in the next few days. According to the DG, there are problems with the missile's seeker system.