DRDO Successfully Flight-tests Phase-II Ballistic Missile Defence System

Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO) successfully flight-tested Phase-II Ballistic Missile Defence System on Wednesday. The Target Missile was launched from LC-IV Dhamra at 16:20 hrs mimicking adversary Ballistic Missile, which was detected by weapon system radars deployed on land and sea and activated the AD Interceptor system.

The Phase-II AD Endo-atmospheric missile was launched from LC-III at ITR, Chandipurat 1624 hrs. According to the defence ministry, the flight test fully met all the trial objectives validating a complete network-centric warfare weapon system consisting of Long Range Sensors, a low latency communication system and MCC and advanced interceptor missiles.

The defence ministry said that the test demonstrated India’s indigenous capability to defend against the Ballistic Missiles of the 5,000 km class. The performance of the missile was monitored from the flight data captured by Range tracking instruments like Electro-Optical Systems, Radar and Telemetry Stations deployed by ITR, Chandipur at various locations including onboard ship.

The Phase-II AD Endo-atmospheric missile is an indigenously developed two-stage solid propelled ground-launched missile system meant for neutralising many types of enemy ballistic missile threats in the altitude bracket of endo to low exo-atmospheric regions. Several state-of-the-art indigenous technologies developed by various DRDO laboratories have been incorporated into the missile system.