Interceptor missile designed to destroy enemy missiles successfully tested

[Yeti]

im sure they will be stored somewhere safe and brought out on trucks

 

[Bl[i]tZ]

bilitz bro there supposed to be 3 missiles test in feb AGNI-5 , LR-SAM , NIRBHAY ...this interceptor is a surprise now just waiting for all three to be test fired ...

Sorry for the late reply Jason, I was making that table of launches and their respective dates.

Oh man all these are very very crucial tests. Good luck DRDO!

 

[Yeti]

it was endo-atmospheric....not exo...

That was something totally diffrent buddy that Dr Saraswat mentioned not this test

 

[rockstarIN]

Good news, 2012 is a crucial for DRDO....

 

[Yeti]

Federation of American Scientists (FAS) has detected what it believes is the storage site for Indian's Prithvi missiles. An image of the Research Centre Imarat complex taken earlier this year by the Ikonos imaging satellite revealed an installation which Pike says "is probably the primary Prithvi garrison

 

[trident2010]

They should test it with Agni I/II missile to test its effectiveness. Or may be they are not doing for cost saving purposes.

 

[Archie]

I think what our chincse friend mean is that American and Russian Ballistic Missiles can be intercepted hence these countries have developed BMD systems ,
While Superior quality Chinese Missiles cannot be intercepted so India should not spend money on BMD systems

Phase 1 of Indian Missile shield is mainly Pak specific and is meant to intercepts missiles of upto 2000 Km range
Phase 2 however is china specific with capability to intercept missiles upto 5000 Km range


Yeah ,
only a chinese 50 cent trollboy will believe that chinese missile tech is superior to Russian and American tech

By the way , this interceptor test was the final validation trial of Phase 1 of Indian Missile shield , And now as per Sarasvat we will Begin its deployment in Delhi NCR , this will be followed by Missile shields for Mumbai , Bangalore , Chennai and some 8 Strategic locations by 2017
while work on Phase 2 will begin this yr itself , and it will be deployed in 2017

 

[foxbat]

Only useful application is ASAT, modern ballistic missles are impossible to intercept even with multiple interceptor.

 

[Black Widow]

The biggest thing here is that AAD has scored a hit every time it's launched;that's a score of 4-0!

And this is exactly what you want with an interceptor- Reliability!

Thats depend upon how you define success. American define the success if interceptor hit the warhead, thats too in middle of warhead. If India too have same definition, then balle balle... else..



Any way who cares, lets have party...

 

[Jason bourne]

That was something totally diffrent buddy that Dr Saraswat mentioned not this test

yep even i heard its a secrete test ...

 

[KRAIT]

Congrats to all of indian brothers.....

 

[indianspetsnaz]

where are the trolls at they hide themselves when we prove our advanced technology but have a field day whenever a test fails and that is seldom rare nowadays.

 

[Mblaze]

Indians ki ho gayi balle balle, duniya sari jale jale

 

[OrionHunter]

Only useful application is ASAT, modern ballistic missles are impossible to intercept even with multiple interceptor.

Don't twaddle, especially when you know squat about the subject! Go breathe some fresh air and apply some powder to your sweaty brows. (This news has not only made you sweat from the brows but also resulted in vile discharge of noxious solids from those nooks and crannies of your torso! So go get them washed and powdered too!! Sheeesh!)

 

[Mblaze]

Interceptor scores a direct hit on target missile

Validating Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) capability, India successfully launched an interceptor missile to destroy an incoming target missile in a direct hit at an altitude of 15 km over the Bay of Bengal on Friday.

The target missile mimicked an incoming enemy missile with a range of more than 2,000 km.

A few minutes after the ‘hostile’ missile, a modified surface-to-surface Prithvi, took off at 10.10 a.m. from Launch Complex-3 at Chandipur, the interceptor missile, Advanced Air Defence (AAD), was fired from the Wheeler Island. As the target missile climbed to a height about 100 km and began descending at rapid speed, the interceptor travelling at supersonic speed homed on to the target and smashed it to smithereens around 10.15 a.m. at a 15-km altitude in the endo-atmosphere.

The crucial test was conducted as part of India’s plans to deploy a two-tiered BMD system to engage and kill incoming enemy missiles in the endo-atmosphere and exo-atmopshere.

This was the seventh interceptor mission and the fifth endo-atmospheric interception. Six of the tests to date have been successful, including the first three in a row.

Immediately after the modified Prithvi was launched, the Long Range Tracking Radars near Puri picked up the target missile as also the Multi Functional Radar at Paradip tracked the missile and passed on the information to guidance computer, which gave the command for launching of AAD after computing the target’s flight. Equipped with inertial navigation system, a hi-tech computer and a radio-frequency seeker the AAD locked on to the target missile and blasted it in the terminal phase.

Scientific advisor to Defence Minister V.K. Saraswat, Defence Research and Development Organisation's (DRDO) Chief Controller for missiles and strategic systems, Avinash Chander and other top missile scientists were present.

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