Advanced Air Defence

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Advanced Air Defense, is an indigenously developed interceptor missile developed by India. It is yet to be formally named.It is a part of India's missile defense shield, to intercept and destroy against hostile incoming ballistic missiles. The exo-atmospheric version was tested on November 26, 2007, and endo-atmospheric version was tested on December 6, 2007. Both tests were successful.This missile has been developed by the DRDO.^[1] On feb 10 2012 India again tested successfully as modified version of Prithvi(missile) is dubbed as AAD, it destroyed incoming target missile at endo-atmospheric regime at 15km altitude.

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