The Defence Research and Development Organisation and the Indian Air Force on 2 June 2026 successfully conducted the flight trials of the indigenously developed RudraM II air to surface missile from a Sukhoi 30 MKI fighter operating off the coast of Odisha over the Bay of Bengal. The tests were carried out under extreme release conditions and critical flight trajectory to validate all subsystems and the pre defined target was struck with high accuracy. The missile is capable of achieving speeds up to Mach 5.5 engaging targets at ranges of around 300 kilometres and carrying a 200 kilogram warhead.
RudraM II can be launched from fighter aircraft operating at altitudes between 3 kilometres and 15 kilometres giving the Indian Air Force a stand off precision strike capability against high value enemy assets including radars surface to air missile sites and command centres. The missile employs an advanced hybrid guidance architecture integrating an Inertial Navigation System GPS based navigation and a sophisticated passive homing seeker that detects and tracks radio frequency emissions across a broad spectrum enabling accurate strikes against enemy radar and air defence assets even when they are switched off intermittently.
The Research Centre Imarat in Hyderabad served as the nodal DRDO laboratory for the project with key contributions from the Defence Research and Development Laboratory High Energy Materials Research Laboratory Armament Research and Development Establishment and the Integrated Test Range. The successful trial significantly enhances India indigenous Suppression of Enemy Air Defence capability and reduces dependence on imported air to surface weapons.