India today successfully conducted trials of its indigenously developed surface-to-air ’Akash’ missile, which has a strike range of 25 kms, as part of a user trial by the Air Force from the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur.
With its capability to neutralise aerial targets like fighter jets, cruise missiles and air-to-surface missiles, Defence experts compare ‘Akash’ to the MIM-104 Patriot surface-to-air missile system of the USA.
It has the capability to target aircraft up to 30 km away with a warhead of 60 kgs and is packed with a battery that can track and attack several targets simultaneously, they said.The missile was last test-fired from the same base on June 19.
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