India, Dec. 2 -- India's Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has conducted a successful high-speed rocket-sled test of fighter aircraft escape system at controlled velocity.

The test at Rail Track Rocket Sled facility of the Terminal Ballistics Research Laboratory, Chandigarh, validated canopy severance, ejection sequencing and complete aircrew-recovery.

The test was conducted in collaboration with Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA) and Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL).

This complex dynamic test places India in an elite club of nations with advanced in-house escape system testing capability.

The canopy fragilisation pattern, ejection sequencing and complete aircrew recovery process was simulated using an instrum...