Two Prithvi-II nuclear-capable ballistic missiles with a strike range of 350 km were successfully test-fired in an hour's gap today as part of user trials by the Army from the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur off Orissa coast.
"Two indigenously developed surface-to-surface Prithvi-II missiles were test-fired from the ITR and both the trials were fully successful," ITR Director S. P. Dash said.
"Two indigenously developed surface-to-surface Prithvi-II missiles were test-fired from the ITR and both the trials were fully successful," ITR Director S. P. Dash said.
The missiles, mounted on mobile launchers and aimed at different targets, were test—fired from launch complex—3 in the ITR at around 0815 and 0915 hrs, defence sources said.
The test—firing of the sleek missiles, already inducted into the armed forces, were routine trials conducted by personnel of Strategic Force Command (SFC), they said.
Courtesy:- THE HINDU
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