Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday announced that anti-satellite (A-SAT) weapon has successfully destroyed a decommissioned Indian satellite on a low earth orbit (LEO), joining a group of three countries--US, Russia and China. "India had the capability to carry out anti-satellite missile test in 2012-13 but there was no political clearance to it," said former DRDO chief Vijay Saraswat. Saraswat claims UPA didn’t give go ahead to test fire ASAT missile because of ‘fear psychosis.’