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India to test ballistic missile interceptor
Friday
Thursday November 22, 2012 11:06:31 AM,
IANS
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Bhubaneswar:
India is preparing to test a ballistic missile interceptor from a
defence base in Odisha Friday, an official said Thursday.
The indigenous Advanced Air Defence (AAD) endo-atmospheric
interceptor missile would be fired from Wheeler Island off the
coast near Dhamra in Bhadrak district and kill an incoming
ballistic missile to be launched from the Integrated Test Range (ITR)
at Chandipur-on-sea in Balasore.
"The test is likely to be conducted during the morning hour. It is
a developmental trial," a defence scientist involved in the
exercise told IANS.
India is developing the interceptors which have been successfully
tested several times in the past, to provide air-shield to
important Indian cities against hostile attacks.
The preparations are underway for the launch at both the sites.
Senior defence scientists, including V.K. Saraswat, the chief of
Defence Research and Development Organisation and the scientific
advisor to Defence Minister A.K. Antony, have already arrived to
oversee the launch.
During the exercise, a modified surface-to-surface Prithvi missile
would act as a hostile target which would be lifted off from ITR
at Chandipur-on-sea, about 230 km from here.
The interceptor missile would be launched from Wheeler Island,
about 70 km across sea from Chandipur to destroy the target.
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