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India successfully test-fires supersonic interceptor missile
December 29 , 2017
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- 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.
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