The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) last week successfully flight-tested the second phase of its Ballistic Missile Defence System, which is capable of defending against hostile missiles with a range of 5,000 km.
The missile defence system was tested at the Integrated Test Range (ITR) in Chandipur, Odisha, and it fully met all the trial objectives, validating the complete network-centric warfare weapon system, the Defence Ministry said.
The target missile, mimicking an adversary's ballistic missile, was detected by the weapon system's radars deployed on land and sea, which activated the Air Defence (AD) interceptor system.
The Phase-II AD Endo-atmospheric missile was then launched from LC-III. The flight test fully met all the trial objectives, validating the complete network-centric warfare weapon system consisting of Long Range Sensors, a low-latency communication system, MCC, and Advanced Interceptor missiles, the Defence Ministry added.
The Phase-II AD Endo-atmospheric missile is an indigenously developed, two-stage, solid-propelled, ground-launched missile system designed to neutralise various types of enemy ballistic missile threats within the altitude bracket of endo- to low exo-atmospheric regions.
“A number of state-of-the-art indigenous technologies developed by various DRDO laboratories have been incorporated into the missile system,” the ministry noted.
The performance of the missile was monitored through flight data captured by range-tracking instruments at various locations, including on-board ships. Following the successful test, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh complimented DRDO, the official said.
