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India successfully test-fires indigenously developed supersonic interceptor missile: Defence officials
India has successfully test-fired indigenously developed supersonic interceptor missile, Defence officials have revealed.
By: FE Online | New Delhi | Updated: March 1, 2017 1:14 PM
According to reports, the launch of the Interceptor Missile was carried out by Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) from Abdul Kalam Island off Odisha coast today. (Representative Image: Reuters)
India has successfully test-fired indigenously developed supersonic interceptor missile, Defence officials have revealed. According to reports, the launch of the Interceptor Missile was carried out by Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) from Abdul Kalam Island off Odisha coast today. The anti-missile missile is capable of destroying any incoming enemy ballistic missile at low altitude.
In its attempt to create a multi-layer missile defence system in India, the DRDO has conducted this exercise for the second time in less than a month. An official said, “Today’s test launch was conducted in order to validate various parameters of the interceptor in flight mode.”
In today’s trial in Balasore (Odisha), the interceptor missile was fired at a target in the form of a Prithvi missile (which played the role of a hostile missile) launched from the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur, which was launched at 10.10 in the morning.
According to officials, who provided an insight into the dramatic launch, after about four minutes the interceptor, Advanced Air Defence (AAD) missile, which was stationed at Abdul Kalam Island in the Bay of Bengal, received signals from radars about the incoming rogue missile. The interceptor was launched and managed to destroy the incoming hostile missile in mid-air.
DRDO claimed a huge success and said, “The mission was excellent and it was a direct hit.”
DRDO explained that the interceptor missile is 7.5-meter long, single stage solid rocket propelled guided missile, that carries a navigation system, a hi-tech computer and an electro-mechanical activator. It also has its own mobile launcher, secure data link for interception, independent tracking and homing capabilities aside from radars.
Last month on the 11th, in yet another exercise, but this time at high altitude of above 50 km, DRDO had successfully destroyed an incoming hostile ballistic missile off the Odisha coast. Last year in May, this time at low altitude, DRDO had carried out successful test launch.
Isro had on 15th February successfully placed a world record 104 satellites into space that included 101 foreign satellites and three Indian ones on in a single launch on the sturdy and reliable PSLV-XL ((Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle) rocket to cement the country’s position as a space tech global leader. Thereafter, except for 2 Indian nano satellites, all the rest 102 satellites have been reported as fully functioning in their desired orbits.
India had gone past Russia’s 37 in terms of the number of satellites launched by a single rocket achieved in 2014 that it had managed by using a modified inter-continental ballistic missile. In June 2016, India had achieved a national record after sending as many as 20 satellites into space in one launch.
http://www.financialexpress.com/lif...interceptor-missile-defence-officials/570876/
India has successfully test-fired indigenously developed supersonic interceptor missile, Defence officials have revealed.
By: FE Online | New Delhi | Updated: March 1, 2017 1:14 PM
India has successfully test-fired indigenously developed supersonic interceptor missile, Defence officials have revealed. According to reports, the launch of the Interceptor Missile was carried out by Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) from Abdul Kalam Island off Odisha coast today. The anti-missile missile is capable of destroying any incoming enemy ballistic missile at low altitude.
In its attempt to create a multi-layer missile defence system in India, the DRDO has conducted this exercise for the second time in less than a month. An official said, “Today’s test launch was conducted in order to validate various parameters of the interceptor in flight mode.”
In today’s trial in Balasore (Odisha), the interceptor missile was fired at a target in the form of a Prithvi missile (which played the role of a hostile missile) launched from the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur, which was launched at 10.10 in the morning.
According to officials, who provided an insight into the dramatic launch, after about four minutes the interceptor, Advanced Air Defence (AAD) missile, which was stationed at Abdul Kalam Island in the Bay of Bengal, received signals from radars about the incoming rogue missile. The interceptor was launched and managed to destroy the incoming hostile missile in mid-air.
DRDO claimed a huge success and said, “The mission was excellent and it was a direct hit.”
DRDO explained that the interceptor missile is 7.5-meter long, single stage solid rocket propelled guided missile, that carries a navigation system, a hi-tech computer and an electro-mechanical activator. It also has its own mobile launcher, secure data link for interception, independent tracking and homing capabilities aside from radars.
Last month on the 11th, in yet another exercise, but this time at high altitude of above 50 km, DRDO had successfully destroyed an incoming hostile ballistic missile off the Odisha coast. Last year in May, this time at low altitude, DRDO had carried out successful test launch.
Isro had on 15th February successfully placed a world record 104 satellites into space that included 101 foreign satellites and three Indian ones on in a single launch on the sturdy and reliable PSLV-XL ((Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle) rocket to cement the country’s position as a space tech global leader. Thereafter, except for 2 Indian nano satellites, all the rest 102 satellites have been reported as fully functioning in their desired orbits.
India had gone past Russia’s 37 in terms of the number of satellites launched by a single rocket achieved in 2014 that it had managed by using a modified inter-continental ballistic missile. In June 2016, India had achieved a national record after sending as many as 20 satellites into space in one launch.
http://www.financialexpress.com/lif...interceptor-missile-defence-officials/570876/
