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NSTL completed TAL's maiden fixed-wing trial from an Indian Navy IL-38SD on 2021-03-08; no later TAL-specific event was found in the 2025-26 sweep.

On 8 March 2021, NSTL conducted TAL's maiden fixed-wing flight trial off Visakhapatnam, deploying an instrumented torpedo by parachute from an Indian Navy IL-38SD. A deliberate mid-2025 to 17 July 2026 sweep found no later TAL/Shyena-specific test, contract, delivery or incident; publicized ALWT milestones were excluded because ALWT is a separate successor system. Myanmar had received the first batch of TAL Shyena torpedoes on 12 July 2019 under a $37.9 million deal whose export documents were presented in March 2017, becoming the first non-Indian operator. Inducted into the Indian Navy on 3 March 2012 after a development programme publicly described in 1997 as having completed 24 technical trials, TAL is a 324 mm, electrically propelled, active/passive acoustic-homing anti-submarine torpedo. DRDO's 2025 export datasheet lists ship, rotary-wing and fixed-wing launch options, a 6 km range and a 450 m operating depth. TAL matters because it gave India a domestically designed, series-produced lightweight ASW weapon and an exportable undersea-warfare capability.

Updated 5.4 years ago Updated 8 Mar 2021