Long Range Glide Bomb

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About Long Range Glide Bomb:

It is an air launched 1,000 kg class glide bomb capable of hitting targets at long distance.
Features
- It is an Air to Surface LRGB with conventional warheads to destroy enemy air strips, bunkers, hard installations, buildings etc.
- It is designed to integrate with fighter aircrafts.
- It consists of an Inertial Navigation based guidance system with Digital Control.
GAURAV has been designed and developed indigenously by the Research Centre Imarat (RCI), Hyderabad.
After being launched, the glide bomb steers towards the target using a highly accurate hybrid navigation scheme with a combination of INS and GPS data.
During the flight test, the glide bomb hit the target erected at Long Wheeler’s island with pinpoint accuracy.
Complete flight data during the test launch was captured by Telemetry and Electro optical tracking systems deployed by Integrated Test Range along the coastline.

It is a self-contained navigation technique in which measurements provided by accelerometers and gyroscopes are used to track the position and orientation of an object relative to a known starting point, orientation and velocity.

Source: DRDO carries out successful maiden flight test of Long Range Glide Bomb ‘GAURAV’ from Su-30 MK-I platform off Odisha coast