In a major breakthrough in its quest for an anti-missile system, India on Monday carried out a surface-to-surface missile interception over the waters of Bay of Bengal, unveiling a new supersonic interceptor missile.

Test fired from the wheeler islands off the Chandipur coast, the new missile, only labelled AXO, successfully intercepted a surface-to-surface Prithvi target missile around 1100 hours.

"We have successfully validated many technologies relevant to an interceptor missile," top DRDO officials said raising prospects of the country developing an indigenous anti-missile system.

Later, top DRDO scientists, on the condition of anonymity, said in New Delhi that the missile had the capability of intercepting an incoming missiles thousands of kilometres away and had a response time of just 30 seconds.

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