According to a press release published on October 5, 2020, the Indian DRDO has successfully conducted a flight test of a Supersonic Missile Assisted Release of Torpedo (SMART) on 5th Oct 2020 at 1145 hrs from Wheeler Island off the coast of Odisha, India.
All the mission objectives including missile flight upto the range and altitude, separation of the nose cone, the release of Torpedo and deployment of Velocity Reduction Mechanism (VRM) have been met perfectly. The firing test of the SMART ((Supersonic Missile Assisted Release of Torpedo) was conducted from a truck launcher station.
The tracking stations (Radars, Electro-Optical Systems) along the coast and the telemetry stations including down range ships monitored all the events.
The SMART is a missile assisted release of lightweight Anti-Submarine Torpedo System for Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) operations far beyond Torpedo range. This launch and demonstration are significant in establishing Anti-Submarine warfare capabilities.