{"id":8840,"date":"2026-09-03T13:26:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T13:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/8840\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T13:26:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T13:26:21","slug":"iaf-successfully-conducts-trial-of-indigenous-long-range-glide-bomb-khagantak-243","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/8840\/","title":{"rendered":"IAF successfully conducts trial of Indigenous Long-Range Glide Bomb Khagantak-243"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1x1_spacer.png\" alt=\"Indian Air Force successfully conducted the drop of an indigenously designed &amp; developed Long Range Glide Bomb (Khagantak-243), on Wednesday. (@IAF_MCC X\/ANI Photo)\" title=\"Indian Air Force successfully conducted the drop of an indigenously designed &amp; developed Long Range Glide Bomb (Khagantak-243), on Wednesday. (@IAF_MCC X\/ANI Photo)\" data-original=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1x1_spacer.png\" class=\"lead-img\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">\n                    Indian Air Force successfully conducted the drop of an indigenously designed &amp; developed Long Range Glide Bomb (Khagantak-243), on Wednesday. (@IAF_MCC X\/ANI Photo)\n                                      <\/p>\n<p>The Indian Air Force has achieved a significant breakthrough in indigenous precision-strike capability with the successful drop trial of the indigenously designed and developed Long Range Glide Bomb (LRGB), Khagantak-243.<\/p>\n<p>The achievement marks a major milestone for both the IAF and Indian defence industry.<\/p>\n<p>IAF posted on X that Precision. Power. Pride. A significant milestone for the IAF and Indian Industry. The Indian Air Force successfully conducted the drop of an indigenously designed &amp; developed Long Range Glide Bomb (Khagantak-243).\u00a0 The Trials met all objectives scaling new peaks of lethality through Atmanirbhar Bharat.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Precision. Power. Pride.<\/p>\n<p>A significant milestone for the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/IAF?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">#IAF<\/a> and Indian Industry. The Indian Air Force successfully conducted the drop of an indigenously designed &amp; developed Long Range Glide Bomb (Khagantak-243).\u00a0The Trials met all objectives scaling new peaks of lethality\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VWZEp89zL0\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/VWZEp89zL0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Indian Air Force (@IAF_MCC) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/IAF_MCC\/status\/2095163828405420351?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">September 2, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The trial marks another important step towards enhancing India\u2019s indigenous precision-strike capabilities and strengthening the vision of Aatmanirbhar Bharat in the defence sector.<\/p>\n<p>The successful trial of Khagantak-243 is expected to provide a major boost to the development of long-range air-to-ground precision weapons by Indian industry. Long-range glide bombs are designed to enable combat aircraft to engage targets from stand-off distances, allowing platforms to strike enemy targets while remaining outside the reach of certain air defence systems.<\/p>\n<p>The development of Khagantak-243 comes amid a sustained push by the government and the Armed Forces to reduce dependence on imported weapon systems and promote indigenous design, development and manufacturing of advanced defence technologies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"publish-time-new\"> Published &#8211; September 03, 2026 04:20 am IST<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Indian Air Force successfully conducted the drop of an indigenously designed &amp; developed Long Range Glide Bomb (Khagantak-243),&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[14,5193,5192,5190,5191],"class_list":["post-8840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-defence-industry","tag-glide-bomb-test-indian-army","tag-iaf-glide-bomb","tag-iafs-successful-trial-of-the-khagantak-243","tag-khagantak-243-long-range-glide-bomb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}