AAD Interceptor Missile Fails to Take off

Due to suspected coordination problem, country’s new Advanced Air Defence (AAD) interceptor missile, capable of destroying missiles, failed to take off, which was planned to be launched from the Integrated Test Range at Wheeler Island off Orissa coast, said media reports.

“Coordinated exercise between target missile Prithvi from Chandipur and the indigenously built interceptor from Wheeler Island could not take place properly during the planned trial,” reports said quoting unnamed defence sources.

According to them, target missil Prithvi was test-fired at 10.02 hrs from a mobile launched from ITR’s launch complex-3 at Chandipur-on-sea but the interceptor missiles couldn’t take off, reports said.

The exaction cause behind interceptor missile’s failure to take off is yet to be known but primary analysis indicated that the target missile might have deviate from its stipulated trajectory, leading to lack of proper coordination, said reports citing sources.

They said that the trial, aimed at developing a multi-layer Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) system, was originally scheduled to be held yesterday from the two different sites of the ITR but had to be put off due to some technical snag in a sub-system at Wheeler Island, said reports.

(Based on internet reports)