Prithvi-II successfully clears flight test

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Jacob

10 June, 2011

Indian armed forces yesterday successfully conducted the test firing of Prithvi-II, India's short-range nuclear capable missile. The missile can hit target in the range of 350 kms.

INDIA CLIMBED another step in its missile technology development on Thursday as the country successfully test-fired its short-range nuclear capable missile Prithvi-II. The missile took off from a mobile launcher, and was launched from Launch Complex-III at Chandipur, Orissa - hitting the target with high accuracy. The missile flight-test was carried out by the armed forces as part of their regular training exercise, and met the required goals.

"Prithvi-II, the first indigenous surface-to-surface strategic missile, capable of attacking targets at ranges of 350 kms, reached the pre-defined target in the Bay of Bengal with a very high accuracy of better than 10 meters," officials said as quoted by PTI. The flight test, including the missile’s trajectory and the final splash, was monitored by a battery of state-of-the-art radars, electro-optical telemetry stations and a ship which was located somewhere close to the target point.

Strategic Forces Command (SFC) was responsible for the launch operation, which was fully monitored by Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) scientists. Prithvi-II boasts of a high accuracy inertial navigation system along with a refined on-board control and management. Besides, its mobile launcher allows the possibility of launching it from anywhere. Prithvi II was first test-fired on January 27, 1996. It has already been inducted into the Indian Army. After two failed tests in September last year, the missile underwent two more tests the same year, which it cleared successfully.