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Date : Apr 26 2014
Missile : Akash SAM
Location: Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur, Odisha.
Test Frequency: User trials
Performance :
The ground-to-air missiles, which hit their targets flying 25 km away. While one missile tore apart an incoming target towed by Lakshya, a pilotless target aircraft (PTA), another took apart a receding target, again trailed by Lakshya. The IAF personnel operated the entire Akash system including the targets.
The missiles intercepted their targets at high altitudes and when they were travelling fast. “We destroyed both the targets. The second one was a far-boundary, receding target and so difficult to intercept”, he said. On April 23 also, the IAF had successfully test-fired an Akash.
Result: Success
Source:
Two Akash missiles tested - The Hindu
Date : Apr 27 2014
Missile : Prithvi Air Defence
Location: Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Wheeler Island, Odisha.
Test Frequency: Development trials
Performance :
The interceptions had taken place either in the endo-atmosphere (below 50 km) or in the exo-atmosphere (between 50 km and 80 km). But this mission was a different ball game because the interception was to be done at 120 km, providing very little time for the interceptor to blast off and waylay the attacker. So the motors in the interceptor called the Prithvi Defence Vehicle (PDV) and the target missile were specially developed. The target missile lifted off a ship in the Bay of Bengal, off Odisha at 9.07 a.m. It was a two-stage missile, “mimicking a hostile ballistic missile approaching from more than 2,000 km away,” a DRDO press release said.
In an automated operation, radar-based systems on the Wheeler Island and in Paradip, Puri and Cuttack detected and tracked the “enemy” missile. The computer network, with the help of data from the radars, predicted its trajectory. The single-stage PDV interceptor took off two-and-a-half minutes later.
The PDV, guided by the highly accurate inertial navigation system and supported by a redundant micro-navigation system, moved towards the point of interception. Once the PDV crossed the atmosphere, its heat shield domes covering the IR and radio frequency (RF) seekers fell off. So the two seeker domes opened to look at the incoming missile’s location. With the help of inertial guidance and the IR seeker, the PDV moved for the interception. “The mission was completed and the interception parameters were achieved,”
Result: Success
Source:
Interceptor spot on, though without blast: DRDO - The Hindu
Missile : Akash SAM
Location: Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur, Odisha.
Test Frequency: User trials
Performance :
The ground-to-air missiles, which hit their targets flying 25 km away. While one missile tore apart an incoming target towed by Lakshya, a pilotless target aircraft (PTA), another took apart a receding target, again trailed by Lakshya. The IAF personnel operated the entire Akash system including the targets.
The missiles intercepted their targets at high altitudes and when they were travelling fast. “We destroyed both the targets. The second one was a far-boundary, receding target and so difficult to intercept”, he said. On April 23 also, the IAF had successfully test-fired an Akash.
Result: Success
Source:
Two Akash missiles tested - The Hindu
Date : Apr 27 2014
Missile : Prithvi Air Defence
Location: Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Wheeler Island, Odisha.
Test Frequency: Development trials
Performance :
The interceptions had taken place either in the endo-atmosphere (below 50 km) or in the exo-atmosphere (between 50 km and 80 km). But this mission was a different ball game because the interception was to be done at 120 km, providing very little time for the interceptor to blast off and waylay the attacker. So the motors in the interceptor called the Prithvi Defence Vehicle (PDV) and the target missile were specially developed. The target missile lifted off a ship in the Bay of Bengal, off Odisha at 9.07 a.m. It was a two-stage missile, “mimicking a hostile ballistic missile approaching from more than 2,000 km away,” a DRDO press release said.
In an automated operation, radar-based systems on the Wheeler Island and in Paradip, Puri and Cuttack detected and tracked the “enemy” missile. The computer network, with the help of data from the radars, predicted its trajectory. The single-stage PDV interceptor took off two-and-a-half minutes later.
The PDV, guided by the highly accurate inertial navigation system and supported by a redundant micro-navigation system, moved towards the point of interception. Once the PDV crossed the atmosphere, its heat shield domes covering the IR and radio frequency (RF) seekers fell off. So the two seeker domes opened to look at the incoming missile’s location. With the help of inertial guidance and the IR seeker, the PDV moved for the interception. “The mission was completed and the interception parameters were achieved,”
Result: Success
Source:
Interceptor spot on, though without blast: DRDO - The Hindu
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