India’s DRDO carries out a series of flight tests aimed at developing missile defence capabilities, according to reports citing Times of India. The tests include trials of a ballistic missile defence system and separate anti-ship missile trials, conducted over three successful flight exercises. The coverage describes the programme as part of efforts to create an “Iron Dome”-like layered air and missile defence approach for countering different categories of threats, including ballistic missiles and sea-skimming or anti-ship targets. The reported outcome across the three flights is successful completion of the test missions, indicating that the systems perform as intended during the conducted phases of evaluation. The articles focus on the successful execution of the trials and the inclusion of both ballistic and anti-ship testing within the same development cycle. No additional details are provided in the supplied text about specific platforms, interceptor or target types, ranges, or technical performance metrics beyond the success of the flight tests.