India will for the first time fire two home grown missiles against each other Sunday to validate the capability of the weapon to achieve its design parameters, officials said.
Termed the Prithvi Air Defence Exercise (PADE), one missile will be fired from the shore-based Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur-on-sea and the other from Inner Wheeler Island, both of which are located 150 km from state capital Bhubaneswar, a defence official told IANS.
'If their trajectory is perfectly aligned, it would be termed a success of the operational status of the Prithvi-II missile,' the official added. The aim of the exercise is to test the missile's ability to provide an air-shield cover to important Indian metros of India against hostile attacks, the official explained.
The Prithvi is one of the five missiles being developed under the Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO). First tested in 1988, Prithvi-I has a range of 150 km and can carry conventional or low-yield nuclear warheads for use against troops or armoured formations.
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