India will Flight-tests of Agni, Prithvi missiles soon
The missile cluster of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and the Strategic Forces Command (SFC) of the Services will have their hands full in the next few weeks with the flight-tests of Agni-II, Agni-IV, Prithvi-II and Dhanush missiles. The Agni-II, IV and V, Prithvi-II and Dhanush are all surface-to-surface missiles, capable of carrying nuclear warheads. But in the coming flights, they will carry dummy payloads. Dhanush is a naval variant of Prithvi and launched from ships. Weather permitting, t…
Dhanush missile successfully test-fired from a Naval ship
India successfully test-fired its nuclear-capable Dhanush ballistic missile from a naval ship off Odisha coast today. “Strategic Forces Command (SFC) successfully tested the Dhanush missile today from a naval ship,” said MV K V Prasad, Director of the Integrated Test Range, Chandipur near here. The surface-to-surface Dhanush, a naval variant of India’s indigenously developed ‘Prithvi’ missile, was test fired at around 11.10 AM from a location at Bay of Bengal by the SFC of the defence force. The single-stage, liquid propelled …
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