By A Correspondent

New Delhi: India has successfully tested a locally-developed ground attack and anti-radiation missile, RudraM-II, fired from an Indian Air Force Sukhoi Su-30MKI fighter aircraft on Tuesday (June 2, 2026).

The missile is used for suppressing enemy air defence systems, including radars, a capability that India demonstrated on May 9-10 night in 2025 during the last day of Operation Sindoor when its combat jets destroyed and damaged Pakistan’s 11 military and air bases.

India had previously tested the RudraM missile in October 2020 at the height of the Sino-Indian military face-off in eastern Ladakh to send a message to Communist China and its People’s Liberation Army (PLA).

The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), in collaboration with the Indian Air Force (IAF), conducted the flight tests of the air-to-surface missile “from an airborne platform,” said a Ministry of Defence (MoD) statement released by the state-run Press Information Bureau (PIB).

However, the DRDO handle on X posted an image that gave away the airborne platform as the IAF’s Su-30MKI combat aircraft. It was, however, not known if the image shared by DRDO was of the present test or the previous ones it had conducted.

“The tests were conducted under extreme release conditions with (a) critical trajectory establishing the capability of all subsystems. The missiles, after release, were guided to a predetermined target with pinpoint accuracy,” the statement said.

The Chandipur-based Integrated Test Range on the Odisha coast deployed various range instruments to capture the flight data, confirming all the test objects were “fully met.”

DRDO’s Hyderabad-based Research Centre Imarat was the nodal laboratory that indigenously developed the RudraM-II missile in collaboration with other laboratories, including the Defence Research and Development Laboratory, High Energy Materials Research Laboratory, Armament Research and Development Establishment, and the Integrated Test Range.

The RudraM-II was developed and produced in partnership with state-run institutions such as the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, Regional Centre for Military Airworthiness, Missile System Quality Assurance Agency, and several private and public sector industries. These laboratories and institutions “contributed significantly towards achieving this goal,” the statement added.

India’s Defence Minister Rajnath Singh lauded the efforts of the defence research agency and its laboratories, government-run and private sector industries, and other defence institutions for the successful flight tests of RudraM-II.

Rajnath Singh said the tests demonstrated the “growing maturity of indigenous defence technologies” that contributed significantly to Aatmanirbharta (Self-Reliance) in advanced weapon systems.

Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh, who was given additional charge as DRDO Chairman and Defence Research and Development Department Secretary since June 1, 2026, congratulated all the teams associated with the test for the commendable achievement.

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