DRDO successfully tests ballistic missile defence
10 Feb 2012
India today successfully test-fired a ballistic missile defence system, proving its capability to build its own operational ballistic missile defence.
Scientists of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) used a modified Prithvi missile to strike down an incoming ballistic missile at a height of 15 km, at the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur off the Orissa coast, at 10.10 am today.
DRDO scientists said radars located at different locations tracked the incoming ballistic missile. The interceptor missile was launched at the precise moment with the help of guidance computers that continuously computed the trajectory of the ballistic missile.
The onboard guidance computer then guided the AAD-05 interceptor missile towards the target missile while the onboard radio frequency seeker identified the target missile and guided the AAD-05 close to the target missile, which hit the target missile directly and destroyed it.
The warhead also exploded and destroyed the target missile into pieces.
Radar and electro optic tracking systems (EOTS) have tracked the missile and also recorded the fragments of target missile falling into the Bay of Bengal.
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