The Defense Research and Development Organization on Wednesday efficiently performed the primary flight take a look at of the second stage ballistic missile protection interceptor AD-1 missile from APJ Abdul Kalam Island off the coast of Odisha, the Defense Ministry mentioned.
The flight take a look at was performed with the participation of all BMD weapon system components positioned at completely different geographical areas, the Defense Ministry mentioned in an announcement.
A protracted-range interceptor missile, the AD-1 is designed for each long-range ballistic missiles in addition to low exo-atmospheric and endo-atmospheric interception of plane. It is powered by a two stage strong motor and is supplied with indigenously developed superior management system, navigation and steerage algorithms to precisely information the car to the goal.
During flight-testing, all subsystems carried out as anticipated and have been validated by knowledge captured by a variety of vary sensors, together with radar, telemetry and electro-optical monitoring stations deployed to seize flight knowledge.
This comes nearly two weeks after the Agni Prime new technology ballistic missile was efficiently test-fired off the coast of Odisha on October 21.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
