New Delhi, India has successfully demonstrated its multi-layered Ballistic Missile Defence system's capability to intercept long and medium-range missiles, joining a select group of countries.
The Defence Research and Development Organisation has successfully demonstrated multiple crucial technologies bolstering the nation's defence capabilities against different types of enemy threats.
Three consecutive flight-tests were conducted on June 10 and 11 to demonstrate multi-layered Ballistic Missile Defence against incoming missiles, according to the defence ministry.
The tests were conducted to check the capability to take down incoming ballistic missiles both inside and outside the earth's atmospheric limits.
India has been developing capability to intercept hostile missiles both at endo-atmospheric and exo-atmospheric levels.
The endo-atmospheric missiles are the ones that operate within the earth's atmosphere that covers an altitude below 100 km. The exo-atmospheric missiles are capable of completing missions in the upper-most region of the earth's atmosphere.
