DRDO SUCCESSFULLY TEST-FIRES INDIGENOUSLY DEVELOPED SUPERSONIC INTERCEPTOR MISSILE
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2015 BY INDIANDEFENSE NEWS
A Collage of DRDO's Advanced Air Defence (AAD) Interceptor Missile System - The interceptor (extreme right) is a 7.5-meter long single stage solid rocket propelled guided missile equipped with a navigation system, a hi-tech computer and an electro-mechanical activator
Upgraded interceptor missile successfully hits virtual target
BALASORE: As part of efforts to develop a full fledged multi-layer Ballistic Missile Defence system, India today test-fired its indigenously developed supersonic interceptor missile, capable of destroying any incoming ballistic missile, from a test range off Odisha coast.
The anti-ballistic missile, called AAD ( Advanced Air Defence) took off at 9.40 a.m. from the A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Wheeler Island soon after it received the command to waylay and destroy an incoming target missile.
India's Ballistic Missile Defence capability received a boost on Sunday with the successful launch of an upgraded version of the interceptor missile against an electronically simulated target missile over the Bay of Bengal.
The anti-ballistic missile, called AAD ( Advanced Air Defence), took off at 9.40 a.m. from the A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Wheeler Island soon after it received the command to waylay and destroy an incoming target missile in the endo-atmosphere (below 40 km altitude) after the conditions for the latter were electronically simulated without the actual launch of the missile.
Conditions similar to the launch of a target missile from Balasore were simulated electronically and upon receiving its coordinates, the interceptor missile, travelling at supersonic speed, engaged and destroyed the "virtual target" in mid-flight.
India plans to deploy a two-tiered Ballistic Missile Defence system to protect important cities and vital installations from enemy attack. The first phase seeks to destroy incoming enemy missiles of 2,000 km range, while the second phase envisages killing incoming missiles of more than 2,000 km
With Sunday's mission, Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has conducted 11 interceptor missile tests. While eight of the missions were in endo-atmosphere, the remaining were in exo-atmosphere. Nine of the missions had been successful.
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2015 BY INDIANDEFENSE NEWS
A Collage of DRDO's Advanced Air Defence (AAD) Interceptor Missile System - The interceptor (extreme right) is a 7.5-meter long single stage solid rocket propelled guided missile equipped with a navigation system, a hi-tech computer and an electro-mechanical activator
Upgraded interceptor missile successfully hits virtual target
BALASORE: As part of efforts to develop a full fledged multi-layer Ballistic Missile Defence system, India today test-fired its indigenously developed supersonic interceptor missile, capable of destroying any incoming ballistic missile, from a test range off Odisha coast.
The anti-ballistic missile, called AAD ( Advanced Air Defence) took off at 9.40 a.m. from the A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Wheeler Island soon after it received the command to waylay and destroy an incoming target missile.
India's Ballistic Missile Defence capability received a boost on Sunday with the successful launch of an upgraded version of the interceptor missile against an electronically simulated target missile over the Bay of Bengal.
The anti-ballistic missile, called AAD ( Advanced Air Defence), took off at 9.40 a.m. from the A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Wheeler Island soon after it received the command to waylay and destroy an incoming target missile in the endo-atmosphere (below 40 km altitude) after the conditions for the latter were electronically simulated without the actual launch of the missile.
Conditions similar to the launch of a target missile from Balasore were simulated electronically and upon receiving its coordinates, the interceptor missile, travelling at supersonic speed, engaged and destroyed the "virtual target" in mid-flight.
India plans to deploy a two-tiered Ballistic Missile Defence system to protect important cities and vital installations from enemy attack. The first phase seeks to destroy incoming enemy missiles of 2,000 km range, while the second phase envisages killing incoming missiles of more than 2,000 km
With Sunday's mission, Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has conducted 11 interceptor missile tests. While eight of the missions were in endo-atmosphere, the remaining were in exo-atmosphere. Nine of the missions had been successful.
