India tests interceptor missile

Bhubaneswar : India on Sunday successfully test fired an interceptor missile, which destroyed an ?enemy? ballistic missile over Bay of Bay off Orissa coast.

The indigenously-developed Advanced Air Defence (AAD) missile was blasted off Wheeler Island by DRDO scientists about three minutes after a target missile, mimicking an enemy missile, was launched from pad P-3 from Interim Test Range, Chandipur, at 9.35 am.

The interceptor missile zeroed on the target ?enemy? missile as the latter began its downward trajectory and destroyed it 16 km above the ground, DRDO sources said.

Long Range Tracking Radars located at Konark and Multi-Functional Fire Control Radar at Paradip tracked the enemy missile and passed on the information to Mission Control Centre, which in turn relayed the impact point and assigned the AAD battery to launch the interceptor.

The DRDO is slated to test fire more missiles in the next few days.