India's indigenously built Advanced Air Defence (AAD) interceptor missile is capable of destroying hostile incoming ballistic missiles.
Test-fire of India's indigenously built Advanced Air Defence (AAD) interceptor missile, capable of destroying hostile in-coming ballistic missiles, was postponed today at the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Wheeler Island off Orissa's coast.
The trial, scheduled for the day, was postponed due to some technical snag in the sub-system at Wheeler Island and there was no problem with the missiles, official sources said.
The next date for the test, aimed at developing a full- fledged multi-layer Ballistic Missile Defence system, would be decided shortly after the problem was sorted out by experts, they said.
The test-fire was proposed to be carried out from two different launch sites of the ITR.
The target missile, a modified indigenously built Prithvi was to first lift off from a mobile launcher from the ITR's launch complex at Chandipur-on-sea, 15 km from here.
Minutes later the interceptor missile would have blasted off from the Wheeler's Island, about 70 km across the sea from Chandipur, to intercept it at an altitude of 15 to 20 km in mid-air over the waters.
Yet to get a formal name, the new hypersonic interceptor missile is only called 'AAD' and is meant to be used in 'endo-atmospheric conditions'.
The Balasore district administration has been asked by ITR officials to wind up the camps where about 400 families in nearby hamlets in Chandipur have been shifted as a safety measure for the test-fire, they said.
The seven-metre AAD interceptor is a single stage solid rocket propelled guided missile equipped with an inertial navigation system, a hi-tech computer and an electro-mechanical activator totally under command by the data uplinked from the ground based radar, the sources said.
The missile has its own mobile launcher, secure data link for interception, independent tracking and homing capabilities and its own radar.
The DRDO has already test fired the interceptor missile thrice on November 27, 2006, December 6, 2007 and March 6, 2009 from the Wheeler Island.
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