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Indian Air Force tests new indigenous long-range glide bomb

by Gabriel Dominguez & Rahul Udoshi

The Indian Air Force (IAF) tested a new, locally developed ‘Long-Range Bomb (LRB)' from one of its Sukhoi Su-30MKI multirole fighters on 29 October, according to a statement issued the same day by the Indian government's Press Information Bureau (PIB).

The PIB said that the new weapon, which has been designed and developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation's Research Centre Imarat in Hyderabad, was dropped from “a long range” and struck a land-based target “with accuracy within [the] specified limits”.

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The Indian Air Force (IAF) tested a new, locally developed ‘Long-Range Bomb (LRB)' from one of its S...

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