India's missile shield test fails: officials

AFP ^ | 03/15/10

[TigerLikesRooster]

India's missile shield test fails: officials

Mon Mar 15, 7:37 am ET

BHUBANESWAR, India (AFP) – India's homegrown interceptor defence shield developed to detect and destroy incoming ballistic missiles failed during a test on Monday, military officials said.

The test was abandoned when the radars following the target, a nuclear-capable missile, lost track of it after it blasted off from a site 200 kilometres (120 miles) from Bhubaneswar in eastern India.

"The 'hostile' missile went off the radars after it took off and deviated from its trajectory and so the interceptor was not launched," an official from Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) said, asking not to be named.

DRDO spokesman Ravi Gupta in New Delhi confirmed the seven-metre (23-foot foot) interceptor missile was not launched during Monday's botched test.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Which went crazy, the target missile or the radar?

[Abathar]

Hell ours failed a lot the first tests too, it’s why they do it in the first place. A miss can tell them just as much as a hit sometimes.

I wish them well in this, they certainly have a need for it.

[James C. Bennett]

I had posted this on an earlier thread on the same:

“As far as I am aware, during missile tests, if any component begins to deviate from a predicted trajectory, subsequent launches are immediately cancelled, and the deviating missile is forced to self-destruct.

The test here was on Wheeler Island, which is in the Bay of Bengal. Two sovereign nations, Burma and Bangladesh, are right by it. I would think that a stray missile has the potential to quickly become a major international issue.”

[doorgunner69]

I like the way they always make it sound like the interceptor failed to hit, rather than what really happened was the test was aborted for other reasons...........