(MENAFN- Qatar News Agency) New Delhi April 28 - India on Monday successfully test-fired advance air defence (AAD) interceptor missile whose primary function is to destroy an incoming enemy ballistic missile.
Defence Research and Development Organisation-run premier missile testing centres located in the two north Orissa coastal districts of Balasore and Bhadrakh were involved in this important exercise popularly known as "missile versus missile" test reported the press trust of india (PTI) today.
Highly placed sources in both districts said a surface-to-surface "Prithvi" missile which was modified into a hostile or "enemy" missile was first test-fired into the air from a mobile launcher parked on the launch pad number three of Interim Test Range (ITR) located in Chandipur in Balasore district at 10:05 am.
Three minutes later at 10:08 am the interceptor missile was launched from the launch pad number four of the missile testing centre on Wheelers Island in the neighbouring district of Bhadrakh which is located about 70 km from Chandipur.
The seven-metre-long interceptor missile indigenously developed by the DRDO collided and destroyed the target missile in the midair at an altitude of 30 km over the Bay of Bengal at 10:15 am. Several DRDO scientists were present at both missile testing centres during the crucial exercise.
The media reported that the interceptor missile was tested at the Integrated Test Range located at Wheeler Island off the coast of eastern state of Odisha.
After the launch the missile intercepted a dummy incoming missile in the air reports said adding it was first test fired from a naval ship and after getting signals from the radars the interceptor went into action.
"The trial was conducted successfully and all the mission objectives were met" the media quoted the Defence Research Development Organisation spokesman as saying.
"The details of the 'kill effect' of the interceptor missile were analysed after retrieving all the data from various radars and telemetry stations" the media quoted a defence official as saying.
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