Indian Air Akash missile Inducted

by Nksagar | January 4, 2008 at 09:33 pm

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An official announcement here said a series
of user trials of the missile over the last days at the Interim Missile
Test Range in Balasore in Orissa had been " fully successfull"
demonstrating the weapon's intended objective.

"The evaluation of the missle has been completed and the weapon
system is now available for indigenoous production," Sitanshu Kar, the
Defence Ministry spokesman said.

" The missile system is uniquely configured and customised for
Indian Air Force and Indian Army", the spokesman said in significant
remarks clarifying that Indian defence scientists had now managed to
rectify flaws in the missile.

The success of the Akash came as a shot in the arm for the
scientists of the Defence Research and Development Organisation(DRDO),
which successfully test fired for the second time the 3,000 kms range
surface to surface Agni-III missile and an indigenous interceptor
missile, which is planned to be turned into a Ballistic Missile Defence
(BMD) system