configuration: scientist Balasore (Odisha), Feb 11 (PTI) The mission control centre for the country's first Advance Air Defence interceptor missile was deployed in master-slave configuration at DRDO Hyderabad and Wheeler Island in Odisha to ensure high availability of built-in fault tolerance at each location. "The mission control centre of the Indian ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) programme is one of the most advanced, automated net-centric command and control systems in the world," a senior scientist of DRDO associated with BMD project, Gundra Sathees Reddy, said. India's indigenously developed AAD interceptor missile was successfully flight tested from Integrated Test Range (ITR) off Odisha coast yesterday. Reddy said Mission Control Centre (MCC) located more than 1,000 km at Hyderabad from the missile test range, received the target data in real time from multiple weapon system radars. The complete air situation picture (ACP) during the BMD trial was provided to the MCC commander using advanced data fusion and target classification techniques, he said. "After the classification of the target as an enemy ballistic missile, mission control centre issued engagement orders to the AAD launch centre located at Wheeler Island at Dhamara," the DRDO scientist said. The scientist further said that complete engagement sequence from target detection to destruction was controlled by the mission control centre (MCC) in net-centric mode of operation. The interceptor missile lifted-off from Wheeler Island destroying the target at an altitude of 15 km. "The AAD trial has successfully demonstrated complete functionality in deployment configuration of mission control centre (MCC) for the ballistic missile defence programme," Reddy added.
