The first flight test of a sea-based endo-atmospheric interceptor missile was successfully completed on April 21, 2023, off the coast of Odisha in the Bay of Bengal by the Indian Navy and the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO).
The trial’s aim was to confront and defeat a hostile ballistic missile threat in order to advance India into the exclusive group of countries with a naval BMD capabilities. Prior to this, the DRDO successfully tested a land-based BMD system with the potential to counterbalance threats from invading ballistic missiles.
Kshatriya Mantri DRDO, the Indian Navy, and industry members who participated in the successful demonstration of ship-based ballistic missile defence capabilities were commended by Shri Rajnath Singh. The teams responsible for the missile’s design and development were praised by the Secretary of DDR&D and the Chairman of the DRDO, Dr. Samir V. Kamat. He said that nation had developed extremely sophisticated network-centric anti-ballistic missile systems to achieve self-reliance.
