- The first stage is done, and the second is just getting started, officials said. They said that the second phase will be used to test intercept systems in a new range category.
- The ministry said that the AD-1 missile is powered by a two-stage solid motor and has an advanced control system and navigation and guidance algorithm that were made in China.
The defence ministry said that India did a very important test on Wednesday to prove and show off its ability to stop long-range missiles using ballistic missile defence (BMD).
Defense Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) successfully tested a long-range interceptor missile for the first time. The missile, called AD-1, was made to stop ballistic missiles and fighter planes both low in the atmosphere and high in the atmosphere.
The minister of defence, Rajnath Singh, called the missile a “unique type of interceptor” with high-tech features that are only available in a few countries.
India has made a lot of progress in making endo-atmospheric and exo-atmospheric intercept systems to shoot down enemy missiles inside and outside the atmosphere. Officials said that the two systems have been put together to make a multi-layered defence against ballistic missiles.
From the APJ Abdul Kalam Island off the coast of Odisha, the phase-II BMD interceptor AD-1 missile with a “large kill altitude bracket” was tested. “All parts of the BMD weapon system that are in different parts of the world took part in the flight test,” the ministry said in a statement.
India’s BMD programme is being done in two stages. The first stage is done, and the second is just getting started, officials said. They said that the second phase will be used to test intercept systems in a new range category.
The ministry said that the AD-1 missile is powered by a two-stage solid motor and has an advanced control system and navigation and guidance algorithm that were made in China. This makes it possible for the vehicle to be precisely guided to the target.
“During the flight test, all of the subsystems worked as expected, which was confirmed by the data collected by the radar, telemetry, and electro-optical tracking stations that were set up to track the flight.”
The defence minister said that the new missile will take the country’s BMD capabilities to the next level. At the same time, DRDO chief Samir V. Kamat said that the interceptor will give users a lot of operational flexibility to attack different types of targets.
As has been said before, the integrated exo-atmospheric and endo-atmospheric systems have a hit-to-kill rate of 99.8 percent.
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