Defense Minister praised DRDO
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh praised the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) for the successful flight test. He said that this test has once again demonstrated India's ballistic missile defence capability. The ministry said, 'DRDO successfully flight tested the second stage of the Ballistic Missile Defence System on July 24.' According to the release, the target missile, a prototype of the enemy's ballistic missile, was launched at 4.20 pm, which was detected by the weapon system radar deployed on land and sea and the 'interceptor' system was activated.
Defense Ministry gave full information
The ministry said, 'The second stage AD Endo-Atmospheric Missile was fired from LC-3 of ITR, Chandipur at 4.24 pm.' According to the release, the second stage AD Endo-Atmospheric Missile is an indigenously developed two-stage solid fuel powered and ground launched missile system. It is aimed at neutralizing various types of enemy ballistic missile threats in the high altitude areas of low exo-atmospheric regions. Experts said that exo-atmospheric missiles are capable of carrying out missions in the uppermost region of the Earth's atmosphere, while endospheric missiles are those that operate within the Earth's atmosphere and hit targets at altitudes less than 100 km.
The test was successful
The Defence Ministry said the flight test met all test objectives, thereby validating a complete network centric warfare system comprising long range sensors, low latency communication systems and advanced interceptor missiles. “This test has demonstrated the country's indigenous capability to defend against ballistic missiles having a range of 5000 km,” the ministry said in a statement. “The performance of the missile was monitored by ITR, Chandipur from flight data obtained by surveillance equipment such as electro-optical systems, radars and telemetry centres deployed at various locations including ships,” it said. India is developing the capability to intercept enemy ballistic missiles both inside and outside the earth's atmospheric boundaries.
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