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23/04/23 09:10 AM IST

India successfully tests sea-based ballistic missile interceptor

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  • The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and Indian Navy successfully conducted a maiden flight trial of a sea-based endo-atmospheric interceptor missile off the coast of Odisha in the Bay of Bengal.
BMD Interceptor Missile System
  • This system is capable of intercepting both slow-moving aircraft and long-range nuclear missiles.
  • Only a few countries, including the United States, Russia, Israel, and China, have fully operational BMD systems.
  • These countries have a network of early-warning and tracking sensors, dependable command and control posts, and land and sea batteries of advanced interceptor missiles.
  • Since the late 1990s, India has been working on its BMD programme, and it tested its first interceptor missile in November 2006.
  • DRDO has previously stated that the combination of exo- and endo-interceptor missiles provides a "kill probability of 99.8%."
  • The AD-1 is a new endo-interceptor missile with the ability to change shape.
  • The endo-atmospheric missiles are the ones that operate within the earth's atmosphere that covers an altitude below 100 kilometers.
  • The exo-atmospheric missiles are capable of completing missions in the upper-most region of the earth's atmosphere.
  • The AD-1 is a long-range interceptor missile designed for both "low exo-atmospheric" and "endo-atmospheric" interception of long-range ballistic missiles as well as aircraft.
Source- PIB

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