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Interceptor missile test-fired

Finally, a success

This is for the sixth time that DRDO scientists are testing the interceptor missile.
 The interceptor missile has its own mobile launcher
 The missile is also equipped with sophisticated radar and tracking facilities

Balasore (Orissa), March 6
In a leap forward to fortify its skies, India today successfully test-fired its indigenously developed interceptor missile which destroyed a ‘hostile’ target ballistic missile, a modified Prithvi, at a height of 16 km over the Bay of Bengal.

The ‘hostile’ target ballistic missile, a modified surface-to-surface ‘Prithvi’, lifted off from a mobile launcher around 0933hours from the launch complex-3 of ITR at Chandipur-on-Sea, 15 km from here.

In less than three minutes, the interceptor missile positioned at Wheeler Island, about 70 km from Chandipur, received signals from tracking radars and it travelled at a speed of 4.5 Mach to destroy it. ITR Director S P Dash said the interceptor hit the ‘target’ missile at an altitude of about 16 km over the Bay. — PTI

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