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Interceptor missile test-fired
Balasore (Orissa), March 6 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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