India to conduct fourth anti-missile interception test
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India will conduct its fourth test of the mocked interception of ballistic missile in less than two weeks, the Indian newspaper The Hindu reported on its website on Tuesday evening.
The launch window would be chosen between March 10 and 15, the paper quoted Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) spokesman V.K. Saraswat as saying.
During the test day, an intercepting missile, named the Advanced Defense missile, will blast off from the Wheeler Island off the coast of Orissa, after a simulated ballistic missile lifts off from the Integrated Test Range at Balasore in Orissa, said Saraswat.
The intercepting missile will track and kill the incoming ballistic missile at an altitude of less than 20 kilometers.
This will be the fourth time for the DRDO to test its intercepting missile. The three previous tests were conducted on Nov. 27, 2006; Dec. 6, 2007; and March 6, 2009.
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