Watch: India conducts maiden flight-test of ballistic missile defence interceptor

India’s premier defence analysis company – DRDO – on Wednesday performed a profitable maiden flight-test of phase-II ballistic missile defence interceptor AD-1 missile with a big kill altitude bracket from APJ Abdul Kalam Island off the coast of Odisha.

The flight take a look at was carried out with the participation of all ballistic missile defence weapon system parts positioned at totally different geographical places.

The AD-1 is a long-range interceptor missile designed for each low exo-atmospheric and endo-atmospheric interception of long-range ballistic missiles in addition to plane, the Ministry of Defence stated.

The interceptor is propelled by a two-stage stable motor and geared up with an indigenously-developed superior management system, navigation and steering algorithm to exactly information the automobile to the goal.

Through the flight take a look at, all of the sub-systems carried out as per expectations and had been validated by the info captured by a variety of vary sensors together with Radar, Telemetry and Electro-Optical Monitoring stations deployed to seize the flight knowledge, the ministry stated.

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh congratulated the DRDO for the profitable flight trial of AD-1. He termed it as a novel kind of interceptor with superior applied sciences accessible to only a few nations on the earth.

This interceptor will present nice operational flexibility to the customers and have the aptitude to have interaction many various kinds of targets, stated Dr Samir V Kamat, chairman of DRDO.