{"id":35746,"date":"2026-09-03T08:36:51","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T03:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/iaf-conducts-successful-drop-test-of-khagantak-243-indigenous-glide-bomb\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T08:36:51","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T03:06:51","slug":"iaf-conducts-successful-drop-test-of-khagantak-243-indigenous-glide-bomb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/iaf-conducts-successful-drop-test-of-khagantak-243-indigenous-glide-bomb\/","title":{"rendered":"IAF Conducts Successful Drop Test of Khagantak-243 Indigenous Glide Bomb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div xmlns:default=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" id=\"\">\n<div class=\"f3e032cb\"><picture class=\"c62bd949\" style=\"visibility:visible\"><source media=\"(max-width: 768px)\" type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.bhaskarassets.com\/webp\/thumb\/360x0\/web2images\/1884\/2026\/09\/03\/cover_1788404315966.jpg\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.bhaskarassets.com\/webp\/thumb\/512x0\/web2images\/1884\/2026\/09\/03\/cover_1788404315966.jpg\"\/><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/images.bhaskarassets.com\/web2images\/1884\/2026\/09\/03\/cover_1788404315966.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"eager\" class=\"f97587ba\"\/><\/picture><\/div>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"word-break:break-word;text-align:left;white-space:pre-line\">The Indian Air Force (IAF) has successfully conducted a drop test of the indigenous Long Range Glide Bomb (LRGB) Khagantak-243, marking a significant step towards strengthening India&#8217;s precision-strike capabilities.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:0\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"word-break:break-word;text-align:left;white-space:pre-line\">The glide bomb has been developed by Nagpur-based startup JSR Dynamics in collaboration with Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL). It is equipped with a 125-kg Mk-81 warhead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"word-break:break-word;text-align:left;white-space:pre-line\">Khagantak-243 can reportedly be released from an altitude of 12 km at a speed of Mach 0.8 and has a stated range of around 144 to 180 km.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"word-break:break-word;text-align:left;white-space:pre-line\"><strong>The news is being continuously updated&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:0\"\/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian Air Force (IAF) has successfully conducted a drop test of the indigenous Long Range Glide Bomb (LRGB) Khagantak-243, marking a significant step towards strengthening India&#8217;s precision-strike capabilities. The glide bomb has been developed by Nagpur-based startup JSR Dynamics in collaboration with Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL). It is equipped with a 125-kg Mk-81 warhead&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35747,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31257,31254,25592,32691,32690,32688,32689,32692],"class_list":["post-35746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nation","tag-bharat-electronics-limited","tag-india-defense","tag-indian-air-force","tag-indigenous-glide-bomb","tag-jsr-dynamics","tag-khagantak-243","tag-lrgb","tag-precision-strike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}