India successfully test-fires interceptor missile

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Strengthening its missile defence shield, Indian on Saturday successfully test-fires interceptor missile from a defence base off Odisha coast.

“India successfully test-fires interceptor missile off Odisha coast: Defence officials,” media reports stated.

“The test was conducted to assess our weapon’s killing capability”, defence sources said.

The missile intercepted a target, mimicking an incoming enemy missile, mid-air.