Abhishek Kumar's video: Space: Indian ASAT Test Mission Shakti Official

Complete Details about the Mission in 40 seconds. 'Mission Shakti' anti-satellite (ASAT) weapon test showed that India has developed the technological capability to destroy enemy nuclear-tipped missiles launched from as far away as 5,500 kilometres or more, at high altitudes outside the atmosphere, say experts.      Shortly after the test, the Ministry of External Affairs had said that the missile used in Mission Shakti was "DRDO's Ballistic Missile Defence interceptor", which was "part of the ongoing ballistic missile defence programme". Early reports on the test said the same. However, a day after the test, Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) Chairman G Satheesh Reddy said that this was a new missile, developed specifically as an anti-satellite mission. "The missile has technologies developed for ballistic missile defence applications, particularly the kill vehicle," Reddy told a news agency in an interview.    In either case, Reddy has said that the ASAT Missile used in the test "had the capability to intercept satellites higher than 1000 km". This would represent a major boost for India's ballistic missile defence (BMD) programme as well, since intercepting a satellite and BMD are based on near identical technologies. "The recent ASAT test provides a capability to intercept intermediate-range and intercontinental-range ballistic missiles in high-altitude, exo-atmospheric phase," explained Avinash Chander, former chief of the DRDO. This "implicit" boost provided to ballistic missile defence by the ASAT Programme"is a new capability", he added. Credits for this Video: Twitter Handle of DRDO Please like, comment and share this video. And, Don't forget to Subscribe this Channel. Created by Abhishek Kumar (anshu51379) .........