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DRDO conducts successful test of interceptor missile

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New Delhi, February 10, 2012
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The Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO) today conducted a successful test launch of its interceptor missile, making India the fifth nation in the world to possess these ballistic missile defence capabilities.
 
The Air Defence Missile AAD-05 successfully hit the ballistic missile and destroyed it at a height of 15 kms off the coast of Odisha near Wheelers Island. 
 
A modified Prithvi missile mimicking the ballistic missile was launched at 1010 hrs from the Integrated Test Range (ITR), Chandipur. 
 
Radars located at different locations tracked the incoming ballistic missile even as the interceptor missile was ready to take-off at Wheelers Island. Guidance computers continuously computed the trajectory of the ballistic missile and launched AAD-05 Interceptor Missile at a precisely calculated time. 

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