India on Friday successfully test-fired its
nuclear-capable Prithvi-II surface-to-surface missile from a military
base in Odisha, a senior official said.
The
indigenously-developed ballistic missile with a maximum range of 350 km
was fired from the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur in Balasore
district, about 230 km from Bhubaneswar.
“It was a perfect launch. It met all mission objectives,” test range Director M.V.K.V. Prasad told IANS.
The Strategic Forces Command (SFC) of the Indian Army conducted the test as part of a regular training exercise, he said.
Prithvi
is India’s first indigenously-built ballistic missile. It is one of the
five missiles being developed under the country’s Integrated Guided
Missile Development Programme.
The battlefield missile, with flight duration of 483 seconds and a peak altitude of 43.5 km, can carry a 500-kg warhead.
The
missile has features to deceive anti-ballistic missiles and uses an
advanced inertial guidance system with manoeuvring capabilities and
reaches its target within a few metres of accuracy.
It
has a higher lethal effect compared to equivalent missiles in the
world. Scientists say the accuracy has
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