Flight Trial against Low Speed Ballistic Target Emulating High Speed Target Interception

Defending the territory against the incoming threats like high speed Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs), Theatre Ballistic Missiles (TBMs), multiple Re-entry Vehicles (RVs), Quassi-Ballistic Missiles (QBMs) and simultaneous or coordinated attack of one such class or combination of all, still poses a daunting challenge to the missile defence designers. Although missile and other supporting systems are designed (or selected) using extensive modeling & simulations and each of them undergo various stages of qualification and checks, it is imperative to carry out the actual flight trials to assess the performances of each of these along with the overall mission. Many times, flight trial with actual target is not possible due to unavailability of high speed (or higher range) targets and test range constraint. In this paper, a method has been proposed where the flight trial can be conducted with a low speed target which can simulate all the problems of hight speed target and hence eliminate the requirement of testing high speed real target.