Long Range Glide Bomb

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.

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