Bhubaneswar, Dec three India Tuesday with success test-fired its nuclear-capable Prithvi-II surface-to-surface missile from a military base in Odisha for the third time inside 2 months, a senior official aforesaid.
The indigenously-developed missile with a most vary of 350 kilometre was pink-slipped from the Integrated range at Chandipur-on-sea in Balasore district, concerning 230 kilometre from Bhubaneswar.
“The mission was hundred % success. It met all mission objectives,” range Director M.V.K.V. Prasad told.
The take a look at was dispensed by the Strategic Forces Command (SFC) as a part of an everyday training, he said.
The missile was earlier with success tested by SFC from an equivalent defence base Oct seven and Oct eight.
Prithvi is India’s 1st indigenously-built missile. it’s one among the 5 missiles being developed beneath the country’s Integrated missile Development Programme.
The tract missile, with flight length of 483 seconds and a peak altitude of forty three.5 km, will carry a 500-kg explosive.
The missile has options to deceive anti-ballistic missiles and uses a complicated inertial navigation system with manoeuvring capabilities and reaches its target inside many metres of accuracy.
It has a better fatal result compared to equivalent missiles within the world. Scientists say the accuracy has already been incontestible within the past within the development flight trials.
