Watch: India conducts maiden flight-test of ballistic missile defence interceptor

India’s premier defence analysis company – DRDO – on Wednesday carried out a profitable maiden flight-test of phase-II ballistic missile defence interceptor AD-1 missile with a big kill altitude bracket from APJ Abdul Kalam Island off the coast of Odisha.

The flight check was carried out with the participation of all ballistic missile defence weapon system parts positioned at completely different geographical places.

The AD-1 is a long-range interceptor missile designed for each low exo-atmospheric and endo-atmospheric interception of long-range ballistic missiles in addition to plane, the Ministry of Defence mentioned.

The interceptor is propelled by a two-stage stable motor and geared up with an indigenously-developed superior management system, navigation and steerage algorithm to exactly information the automobile to the goal.

In the course of the flight check, all of the sub-systems carried out as per expectations and had been validated by the information captured by various vary sensors together with Radar, Telemetry and Electro-Optical Monitoring stations deployed to seize the flight knowledge, the ministry mentioned.

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh congratulated the DRDO for the profitable flight trial of AD-1. He termed it as a singular kind of interceptor with superior applied sciences accessible to only a few nations on the planet.

This interceptor will present nice operational flexibility to the customers and have the potential to interact many various kinds of targets, mentioned Dr Samir V Kamat, chairman of DRDO.