India has successfully flight-tested the second phase of a missile shield system against a 5,000km ballistic missile fired by a simulated adversary.

The test of the missile defence system, conducted by state-owned Defence Research and Development Organization, on Wednesday, has demonstrated India’s indigenous capability to defend against ballistic missiles of 5,000km range, the Defence Ministry said last night.

A target missile was launched at Chandipur in the eastern state of Odisha mimicking an adversary ballistic missile which was detected by the weapon system radars deployed on land and sea and activated the Interceptor system.          

“The flight test fully met all the trial objectives validating the complete network-centric warfare weapon system consisting of long-range sensors, low latency communication system and advanced Interceptor missiles,” a statement issued by the Ministry said.

The performance of the missile was monitored from the flight data captured by range-tracking instruments like Electro-Optical Systems, Radar and Telemetry Stations deployed at various locations including an on-board ship.

The Phase-II AD Endo-atmospheric missile is an indigenously developed two-stage solid propelled ground-launched missile system meant for neutralizing many types of enemy ballistic missile threat.

A number of state-of-the-art indigenous technologies developed by various DRDO laboratories have been incorporated in the missile system.