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.
Q1: What is the inertial navigation system (INS)?
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.
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