Unlike traditional artillery, the MGLD-W can hit targets from a safe distance, making it a formidable addition to modern warfare systems.
Bad news for China and Pakistan: Due to the internal and national security challenges that India has faced in the last few decades, it has steadily grown in its military capabilities. With indigenous defense innovations playing a key role, the defence technology has grown by leaps and bounds. In the recent development, Nagpur-based JSR Dynamics Private Limited has developed a powerful new missile drone named the Miniature Ground Launched Drone-Weaponized (MGLD-W).
Weighing around 400 kg—including a 150 kg turbojet engine—this drone can reach speeds of 0.85 Mach (approx. 1,050 km/h) and strike targets up to 297 km away.
Readers should note that the MGLD-W can hit targets from a safe distance unlike traditional artillery, making it a formidable addition to modern warfare systems. Moreover, the precision strike capability of the drone is enhanced by an inertial navigation system supported by a Multi-Constellation Global Navigation Satellite System.
The MGLD-W is equipped with a 113 kg MK-81 warhead, giving it the firepower to destroy enemy vehicles, bunkers, and infrastructure. Designed for easy launch—potentially even by infantry—it enhances India’s stand-off strike capability, particularly along sensitive borders with China and Pakistan. Its deployment could significantly bolster India’s defensive and offensive edge, raising strategic concerns for adversaries in the region.
India announces five big steps to punish Pakistan
India on Wednesday said that the perpetrators of Pahalgam terror attack will be brought to justice and their sponsors “held to account” while also announcing several measures against Pakistan which continues to sponsor terror in the Kashmir Valley.
Addressing the media after Prime Minister Narendra Modi chaired the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) meeting which lasted for over two hours, Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri also announced several measures “recognising the seriousness” of the terrorist attack, including holding in abeyance with immediate effect the Indus Waters Treaty of 1960 until Pakistan “credibly and irrevocably abjures its support for cross-border terrorism”.
(With inputs from agencies)
