DRDO successfully flight tests Hypersonic Technology Demonstrator Vehicle (HSTDV)

DRDO successfully flight tests Hypersonic Technology Demonstrator Vehicle (HSTDV)

• Defense Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has successfully demonstrated the hypersonic air-breathing scramjet technology with the flight test of the Hypersonic Technology Demonstration Vehicle (HSTDV) from Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Launch Complex at Wheeler Island, off the coast of Odisha on September 07, 2020.
• India has thus become the fourth country after the United States, Russia and China to develop and successfully test hypersonic technology.
• It will serve as the building block for next-generation hypersonic cruise missiles.

Points to remember:

1. Who developed the Hypersonic Technology Demonstration Vehicle (HSTDV) that was recently tested by India?- DRDO?
2. Where was the Hypersonic Technology Demonstration Vehicle (HSTDV) tested?- Odisha
3. India has become the __________ country after the United States, Russia and China to develop and successfully test hypersonic technology.- fourth

Source: PIB and Hindustantimes