{"id":32439,"date":"2018-10-29T14:43:24","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T09:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=32439"},"modified":"2018-10-29T14:43:24","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T09:13:24","slug":"interceptor-missile-successfully-tested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/interceptor-missile-successfully-tested\/","title":{"rendered":"Interceptor missile successfully tested\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/endo-atmospheric-interceptor-missile-successfully-tested\/article22320048.ece\"><strong>Interceptor missile successfully tested<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Testing of missiles<\/p>\n<p><strong>What has happened?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>India on Thursday successfully test-fired an Advanced Air Defence (AAD) interceptor missile, capable of destroying enemy ballistic missiles at low altitude, from a test range in Odisha<\/p>\n<p><strong>Backdrop<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The missile is being developed as part the Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) system and it was the third successful test this year<\/p>\n<p><strong>Direct hit<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The endo-atmospheric interceptor made a direct hit with the incoming missile at an altitude of 15 km, completely destroying it. This version has been tested several times, proving its reliability<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It should be noted that shooting down an incoming missile at lower altitudes is more complicated than shooting at higher altitudes due to the higher velocity of the missile<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What does BMD consist of?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The BMD consists of two interceptor missiles,<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Prithvi Defence Vehicle (PDV) for exo-atmospheric ranges<\/li>\n<li>The Advanced Area Defence (AAD) missile for endo-atmosphere or lower altitudes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interceptor missile successfully tested\u00a0 Context Testing of missiles What has happened? India on Thursday successfully test-fired an Advanced Air Defence (AAD) interceptor missile, capable of destroying enemy ballistic missiles at low altitude, from a test range in Odisha Backdrop The missile is being developed as part the Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) system and it was&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/interceptor-missile-successfully-tested\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Interceptor missile successfully tested\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704908941},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}