India test-fires ballistic missile interceptor

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India test-fires ballistic missile interceptor


India test-fires ballistic missile interceptor
Last Updated: Friday, November 23, 2012, 13:30
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Bhubaneswar: India on Friday test-fired a ballistic missile interceptor from a defence base in Odisha.

The indigenous Advanced Air Defence (AAD) endo-atmospheric interceptor missile was fired from Wheeler Island off the coast near Dhamra in Bhadrak district and killed an incoming ballistic missile that was launched from the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur-on-sea in Balasore.

It is a developmental trial, a defence scientist involved in the exercise had said earlier.

India is developing the interceptors which have been successfully tested several times in the past, to provide air-shield to important Indian cities against hostile attacks.

Senior defence scientists, including VK Saraswat, the chief of Defence Research and Development Organisation and the scientific advisor to Defence Minister AK Antony, oversaw the launch.

During the exercise, a modified surface-to-surface Prithvi missile acted as a hostile target and lifted off from ITR at Chandipur-on-sea, about 230 km from here.

(With IANS inputs)

 

[shuntmaster]

Congrats to DRDO..

 

[Vasily Zaytsev]

India test fires supersonic interceptor missile - India - DNA






India test fires supersonic interceptor missile
Published: Friday, Nov 23, 2012, 13:25 IST | Updated: Friday, Nov 23, 2012, 13:50 IST
Place: Balasore | Agency: PTI

India on Friday successfully test-fired an indigenously developed supersonic interceptor missile, capable of destroying a hostile ballistic missile, from a test range off the Odisha coast.

"At around 12.52 hours, the interceptor hit the target missile successfully at an altitude of about 15 kilometres," DRDO spokesman Ravi Kumar Gupta told PTI. India is working towards development of a multi-layer Ballistic Missile Defence system.

The test was conducted to validate various parameters of the interceptor in flight mode, said a defence source.

The ‘hostile’ ballistic missile, a modified surface- to-surface 'Prithvi', mimicking an incoming enemy weapon, first lifted off from a mobile launcher at around 12.52 hours from the launch complex-3 of integrated test range(ITR) at Chandipur-on-Sea, about 15 km from here.

Within about four minutes, the interceptor, Advanced Air Defence (AAD) missile positioned at Wheeler Island, about 70 km from Chandipur, after getting signals from tracking radars, roared through its trajectory to destroy the incoming missile mid-air, in an "endo-atmospheric" altitude, defence sources said.

"The 'kill' effect of the interceptor is being ascertained by analysing data from multiple tracking sources," a Defence Research Development Organisation (DRDO) scientist said soon after the test was carried out.

The interceptor is a 7.5-metre-long single-stage solid rocket propelled guided missile equipped with a navigation system, a hi-tech computer and an electro-mechanical activator, the sources said.

The interceptor missile had its own mobile launcher, secure data link for interception, independent tracking and homing capabilities, besides sophisticated radars, the sources added.

The previous trial conducted on February 10, 2012 from the same base was successful.

 

[jiki]

its time for a lungi dance

 

[Kinetic]

The main difference between this and other tests is here it is multiple target missiles need to be handled by the BMD. Congrats DRDO.

 

[BlueDot_in_Space]

Interceptor missile scores a direct again


Signalling India’s readiness to deploy the home-grown Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) system in the near future, an advanced interceptor missile destroyed an incoming target missile in a direct hit at an altitude of 15 km over the Bay of Bengal on Friday.

In Friday’s mission, missile technologists from the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) for the first time tested the configuration for destroying an incoming actual missile and another electronically simulated missile.

According to top DRDO sources, the electronically simulated target which mimicked a missile coming from a distance of 1500 km, was electronically hit at an altitude of 120 km.

Within minutes of the launch of the real attacker missile, a modified surface-to-surface Prithvi from Chandipur, the actual interceptor , Advanced Air Defence (AAD) missile took off from Wheeler Island and destroyed the ‘hostile’ missile at an altitude of 15 km in the endo-atmosphere at 12.52 p.m.

As soon as target missile was launched, the Long-Range Tracking Radars and the Multi-Functional Radars tracked it and passed on the data to the guidance computer to launch the AAD, which homed on to the target missile and pulverised it.

Scientific Advisor to Defence Minister V.K. Saraswat, Chief Controller, (Missiles and Strategic Systems), Avinash Chander, Associate Director, Research Centre Imarat, Sateesh Reddy and Programme Director, (AD Mission) Adalat Ali were present.

Celebrations broke out at Wheeler Island following the success of the mission, which was the eighth ballistic interceptor missile test. So far seven missions have been successful and one of them, the first one was conducted in exo-atmopshere at an altitude of 48 km in November 2006.

Keywords: Indian missile programme, interceptor missile

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Two Interceptions took place:
1) Simulate electronic (target missile -interceptor missile) at the height of 120 Km
2) Real modified Prithvi target missile and Real AAD interceptor at the height of 15 Km

 

[Vasily Zaytsev]

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Interceptor missile scores a direct again



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Signalling India’s readiness to deploy the home-grown Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) system in the near future, an advanced interceptor missile destroyed an incoming target missile in a direct hit at an altitude of 15 km over the Bay of Bengal on Friday.

In Friday’s mission, missile technologists from the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) for the first time tested the configuration for destroying an incoming actual missile and another electronically simulated missile.

According to top DRDO sources, the electronically simulated target which mimicked a missile coming from a distance of 1500 km, was electronically hit at an altitude of 120 km.


Within minutes of the launch of the real attacker missile, a modified surface-to-surface Prithvi from Chandipur, the actual interceptor , Advanced Air Defence (AAD) missile took off from Wheeler Island and destroyed the ‘hostile’ missile at an altitude of 15 km in the endo-atmosphere at 12.52 p.m.


As soon as target missile was launched, the Long-Range Tracking Radars and the Multi-Functional Radars tracked it and passed on the data to the guidance computer to launch the AAD, which homed on to the target missile and pulverised it.

Scientific Advisor to Defence Minister V.K. Saraswat, Chief Controller, (Missiles and Strategic Systems), Avinash Chander, Associate Director, Research Centre Imarat, Sateesh Reddy and Programme Director, (AD Mission) Adalat Ali were present.

Celebrations broke out at Wheeler Island following the success of the mission, which was the eighth ballistic interceptor missile test. So far seven missions have been successful and one of them, the first one was conducted in exo-atmopshere at an altitude of 48 km in November 2006.

Keywords: Indian missile programme, interceptor missile

 

[Dr. Strangelove]

congrates

 

[blackops]

great news waiting for some videos now

 

[IND151]

very good news

BTW any news on interceptor which can destroy BM having up to 5000 KM range?

 

[BlueDot_in_Space]

very good news

BTW any news on interceptor which can destroy BM having up to 5000 KM range?

Work is on for developing AD1 and AD2 interceptors, tests are still far away, may be 2014.

 

[jiki]

According to top DRDO sources, the electronically simulated target which mimicked a missile coming from a distance of 1500 km, was electronically hit at an altitude of 120 km.

hey guys plz clear my doubt it means we have alreay increased the range of the exo-atmospheric PAD from 80km to 120km (if true then ) or smnthng else?

 

[ironman1]

Work is on for developing AD1 and AD2 interceptors, tests are still far away, may be 2014.

previously we used PAD ! NOW AAD . is AAD not AD-1 ?

 

[jaiind]

mogambo kush hua. now this news would be sour to hostile nations.

 

[Sergi]

Great !!! Make it operational ASAP.