New Delhi: In another proud moment for India, DRDO has developed a new ballistic missile defense system. It was successfully tested on 24 July 2024. The interceptor missile in the defense system is named AD-1 (Missile AD-1). This is such an anti-ballistic interceptor missile system, which will destroy even a ballistic missile striking 5000 km away, several kilometers above the ground.
The Target Missile was launched from LC-IV Dhamra at 1620 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. The flight test fully met all the trial objectives validating complete network centric warfare weapon system consisting of Long Range Sensors, low latency communication system and MCC and Advance Interceptor missiles.
The test has demonstrated the Nation’s indigenous capability to defend against the Ballistic Missiles of 5000 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 on-board ship.
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