PTI, Balasore :
India on Saturday successfully conducted two rounds of trials of its indigenously developed surface-to-air Akash missile as part of a user trial by the air force from the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur near Balasore in Odisha.
“The sophisticated Akash missile was test-fired twice in quick succession from launch complex-3 of ITR at about 11.55 am and 12 noon,” defence sources said.
Describing both the trials as ‘fully successful’, ITR director M K V Prasad said the whole exercise was carried out as part of a user trial by the Indian Air Force.
Each missile targeted a toe body supported by Pilot Less Target Aircraft (PTA) ‘Lakshya’, defence sources said.
“During the trial, each missile aimed at intercepting a toe body supported by a PTA flown a couple of minutes earlier from another launch complex, at a definite altitude over the sea,” sources said.
