India on 4 October 2012 successfully test fired its indigenously
developed, nuclear-capable ballistic missile Prithvi-II from a test
range in Odisha.
The missile was test fired by the Strategic Forces Command (SFC) from the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur, Odisha.
All the radars and electro-optical systems along the coast have monitored the missile throughout its flight path.
The
Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) have developed
Prithvi-II for the Indian Air Force for deep interdiction and the
missile can be armed with a nuclear warhead weighing 500 kg. In this
flight, it carried conventional explosives.
Prithvi-II is a
user-friendly missile which has a completely guided trajectory. The SFC
had earlier launched it on August 25, 2012 and the flight was
successful. The Indian Army is already armed with the single-stage
Prithvi-II, which uses liquid propellants.
From July 2012
onwards the Strategic Forces Command had launched a series of strategic
missiles including Agni-I, Agni-II and Agni-III.
It is one of the five missiles that were developed under the country's Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme.
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