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India successfully test fires missile interceptor
Friday November 23, 2012 10:09:55 PM,
IANS
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India to test ballistic missile interceptor
Friday
The indigenous Advanced Air Defence (AAD) endo-atmospheric
interceptor missile would be fired from Wheeler Island off the
coast near Dhamra in Bhadrak district and kill an incoming
ballistic missile to be launched from the Integrated Test Range (ITR)
at Chandipur-on-sea »
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Bhubaneswar: India
Friday successfully test fired a ballistic missile interceptor
from a defence base in Odisha as part of its efforts to create a
shield against incoming enemy missiles, an official said.
The indigenous Advanced Air Defence (AAD) interceptor missile was
fired from Wheeler Island off the coast near Dhamra in Bhadrak
district, about 170 km from here.
The interceptor was fired a few minutes after the target missile
was fired from the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur-on-sea in
Balasore district, about 70 km from Wheeler Island.
The interceptor missile successfully destroyed the target missile
at an altitude of 15 km. The interception took place at 12.52 pm,
Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) spokesperson
Ravi Kumar Gupta told IANS.
Long range radar and multifunction fire control radar located far
away could detect the missile from take-off and track it through
its entire path.
The total trajectory of the incoming missile was continuously
estimated by the guidance computer and subsequently the AAD
missile was launched at an appropriate time to counter and kill
the ballistic missile.
"The mission was highly successful," Gupta said, adding that
during the exercise a situation was also created to handle
multiple targets.
He said that apart from the actual interceptor and the target, an
electronically simulated attacker was created which destroyed an
electronically simulated target.
The electronic target with a range of 1,500 km was launched and
the radars picked up the target missile, tracked the target
missile subsequently and launched an electronic interceptor
missile.
This electronic interceptor missile destroyed the electronic
target missile at an altitude of 120 km.
All the missiles -- the physical and the electronically simulated
-- were tracked by the radars and all the guidance and launch
computers operated in full operational mode for handling multiple
targets with multiple interceptor.
All the missiles were in the sky simultaneously and both the
interceptions took place near simultaneously.
This has proved the capability of DRDO to handle multiple targets
with multiple interceptors simultaneously, he pointed out.
The complete radar systems, communication networks, launch
computers, target update systems and state of the art avionics
have been completely proven in this mission.
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