Air-to-Air Missile Test Likely From Today

ALASORE: The Indian Air Force (IAF) is scheduled to carry out a series of tests of Russia made air-to-air short range missile from a defence base off the Odisha coast from Thursday. DRDO will provide all logistic supports for the air defence exercise. Defence sources said the missiles integrated to be fired from fighter aircrafts would target the tow bodies released from Pilotless Target Aircraft (PTA), which will be flown from the launching complex-II of the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur-on-sea, about 15 km from Balasore. …