NEW DELHI, June 17 (Xinhua) -- After successful completion of the first phase, India is now planning to carry out a trial of the second phase of its ballistic missile defense shield program to check whether it's capable of destroying enemy missiles fired at from ranges up to 5,000 km, a top official has said Monday.
"The development of the first phase of the ballistic missile defense shield program is completed. We are planning to soon carry out the first trial of the phase-II of the program under which we will test our capability to destroy an incoming ballistic missile fired at us from 5,000 km range," the head of state-run Defense Research and Development Organization, Avinash Chander, told The Times of India newspaper.
He added: "Such a capability meets our immediate threat perception."
India's ballistic missile defense shield program, an initiative to develop and deploy a multi-layered ballistic missile defense system to protect the country from any attack, was actually introduced in the wake of threats from its arch-rival Pakistan.
The missile defense shield is a double-tiered system consisting of two interceptor missiles -- the Prithvi Air Defense missile for high altitude interception, and the Advanced Air Defense missile for lower altitude interception. Sources say the first phase of the program is capable of shielding enemy missiles fired from ranges up to 2,000 km, and it is likely to be deployed in the Indian capital very soon.
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