Ballistic Missile Defence: India's initial high-speed interceptor missile tests successful

03 December 2007

India Sunday tested the Advanced Air Defence (AAD) missile, a specially developed high-speed interceptor missile, over the Bay of Bengal, defence sources have said.

As a part of its air defence exercise, scientists fired the high-speed interceptor missile a few minutes after a target missile blasted off from Chandipur-on-Sea near here. The target, a derivative of the Prithvi missile, was fired at 10.42 am from the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur, located about 120 km from Wheeler Island, defence sources said.

The interceptor missile was fired at 10.44 a.m. from Inner Wheeler Island off the Orissa coast.