Deletedid1 Posted May 16, 2011 Report Posted May 16, 2011 NEW DELHI: India has started working on a network of air-defence systems which would be able to shoot down an enemy missile even at a distance of 5,000kms, before it can enter the Indian air space. The Defence Research and Development Organisation has already developed a missile that can intercept an incoming aerial threat 2,000kms away under the Ballistic Missile Defence System and is now working on the second phase. Under the second phase, missiles are being designed and developed in a manner that would enable them to shoot down any incoming missile at a distance of 5,000kms, Defence Research and Development Organisation chief V K Saraswat said. The 5,000kms interceptor missile is targeted to be ready by 2016, he said. "It is well on schedule and we are already on initial design and testing stage," DRDO chief Saraswat said.
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