India successfully test-fires supersonic interceptor missile
December 29 , 2017 2442 days 944 0
India has successfully test fired its indigenously designed and built Advanced Air Defense (AAD) Abdul Kalam wheeler Island in off the coast of Odisha in the Bay of Bengal.
This was the third supersonic interceptor test carried out in 2017.
The AAD interceptor destroyed an incoming Prithvi ballistic missile within 30 kilometers of the earth atmosphere.
The interceptor is a 7.5-meter long single stage solid propelled guided missile equipped with a navigation system, a hi-tech computer and an electro-mechanical activator.
It is a part of India’s planned two-layered ballistic missile defense (BMD) system. It constitute as a second tier of defense system.
Israel, Russia, and the United States are the only three countries to have successfully developed and built an indigenous ballistic missile defense system.