Balasore, July 24:The Defence Research & Development Organisation(DRDO) on Wednesday successfully flight-tested Phase-II Ballistic Missile Defence System from an Integrated Test Range off the Odisha coast.
The missile has the capability to defend against ballistic missiles of 5,000 km class, said reports.
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, Chandipur at 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 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.
A number of state-of-the-art indigenous technologies developed by various DRDO labs have been incorporated into the system, it added.
