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It pulverises ‘enemy' ballistic missile at an altitude of 16 km . In yet another confirmation of its ballistic missile defence capability, India on Sunday fired an interceptor missile, which intercepted an incoming ‘enemy' ballistic missile at an altitude of 16 km and pulverised it in “a direct kill.” While the ‘hostile' missile took off at 9.32 a.m. from a launch complex at the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur, Orissa, the interceptor blasted off at 9.37 a.m. from the Wheeler Island, off the Orissa coast. The interceptor had a specially designed directional warhead, “which will go towards the target, look...

icle Published: Friday, July 23, 2004 Missile installed at GreelyBy DANIEL RICE, Staff Writer • FORT GREELY--Against the backdrop of dust devils whipped up by trademark Delta Junction-area winds, a crane operator slowly lowered a 54-foot missile into a launching silo Thursday while senior Army officers and military contract workers watched proudly from about a football field's distance away. More than two decades after the idea of a missile defense system was conceived during the Reagan administration, workers at Fort Greely installed the first interceptor missile in a launching pad picked for Alaska's strategic location in the globe. About a...