India will launch in early August an interceptor called Advanced Air Defence (AAD) missile which will shoot down incoming “enemy missile”. As the enemy missile takes off from its launch pad at the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Balasore, in Orissa the AAD missile will destroy it in midway. The missile will be fired from a wheeler island in Bay of Bengal, about 60km off Balasore. The Defence Research and Development organisation (DRDO) has built both the missiles and will launch them

Preparations are progressing apace for the launches. V.K. Saraswat, Scientific Adviser to the Defence Minister, said the AAD interceptor “is not one of the existing missiles,” hinting that it has been newly developed.