Indias AAD missile fails to blast off

India's new Advanced Air Defence (AAD) interceptor missile, capable of destroying hostile missiles Monday encountered coordination problem and failed to take off during a planned launch from the Integrated Test Range at Wheeler Island off Orissa coast. Coordinated exercise between target missile Prithvi from Chandipur and the indigenously built interceptor from Wheeler Island could not take place properly during the planned trial, defence sources said. Though Prithvi - the target missile - was test-fired from a mobile launcher from ITR's launch complex-3 at Chandipur-on-sea, 15km from here, the interceptor missile failed to blast off, they said. Though the exact reason behind interceptor missile's failure to take off was yet to be ascertained, preliminary analysis suggested that the target missile might have deviated from its stipulated trajectory, leading to lack of proper coordination, the sources said.