DRDO to Conduct Eighth Ballistic Missile Interceptor Test

The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) are going to conduct its eighth ballistic interceptor missile which can be fall any day between 19 November and 22 November 2012.

Scientific Adviser to the Defence Minister, K. Saraswat, had asserted that the attacker, a modified Prithvi missile, would take off from the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur district of Odisha, mimicking an enemy missile while the interceptor would blast off from the Wheeler Island and pounce on the attacker in endo-atmosphere at an altitude of 15 km to 16 km.

The interceptor missile is called Advanced Air Defence (AAD) system and it race at a supersonic speed to intercept the attacker and destroy it.