Successful test of ballistic missile defence system
New Delhi: In a major achievement in the field of defence, India on Wednesday successfully tested the second phase of its ballistic missile defence system. During this, indigenously developed capabilities to defend against enemy missiles with a range of 5,000 kilometres were demonstrated. The Defence Ministry gave this information.
The test was 100% successful
The Defence Ministry said that during the flight test, all the test targets were achieved 100 per cent, which validated the complete network-centric warfare weapon system. The missile was tested at the Integrated Test Range (ITR) in Chandipur, Odisha. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh praised the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) for the successful flight test. He said that this test has once again demonstrated India’s ballistic missile defence capability.
The ministry said, “DRDO successfully flight tested the second stage of the ballistic missile defense system on July 24.” The target missile was launched at 4.20 pm as a prototype of an enemy ballistic missile, which was detected by weapon system radars deployed on land and sea and the ‘interceptor’ system was activated. The ministry said, “In the second stage, the AD endo-atmospheric missile was fired from LC-3 of ITR located in Chandipur at 4.24 pm.
Successful in hitting targets at altitudes less than 100 km
The second stage AD endo-atmospheric missile is an indigenously developed two-stage solid fuel propelled ground-launched missile system. It is aimed at neutralising a variety of enemy ballistic missile threats in the low exo-atmospheric regions of altitude. Experts said exo-atmospheric missiles are capable of carrying out missions in the uppermost region of the earth’s atmosphere while endo-atmospheric missiles are those that operate within the earth’s atmosphere and hit targets at altitudes below 100 km.
The Defence Ministry said the flight test met all test objectives, thereby validating a complete network-centric warfare system comprising long-range sensors, low latency communication systems and advanced interceptor missiles. The ministry said in a statement, “This test has demonstrated the country’s indigenous capability to defend against 5000 km range ballistic missiles.” It said, “The performance of the missile was monitored by ITR, Chandipur from flight data obtained by monitoring equipment such as electro-optical systems, radars and telemetry centers deployed at various locations including ships.” India is developing the capability to intercept enemy ballistic missiles inside and outside the Earth’s atmospheric boundaries. (Input – Bhasha)
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