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India test-fires Prithvi-II missile

Published: August 2012

Bhubaneswar. India successfully conducted another test of its nuclear-capable missile Prithvi-II missile Aug 25.

“India's 350 km range Prithvi PII ballistic missile successfully test fired by the Strategic Forces Command at 1104 hrs meeting all the mission objective from ITR Chandipur at the coast of Odisha,” it was officially announced.

India’s Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), which has achieved several successes in the missile arena in the last couple of years, issued still and video images showing the test being conducted from a mobile launcher.

The test lasted 483 seconds, and reached a peak altitude of 43.5 km. It carried a 500kg dummy warhead.

Test Range Director MVKV Prasad described it as “100 percent success” and DRDO officials and top officers of the Strategic Forces Command, which are entrusted with India’s nuclear assets in land, air and sea, exchanged sweets. DRDO Director Dr VK Saraswat was among those present on the occasion.

Prithvi II is an indigenous missile, with features to counter anti-ballistic missiles. And it also has an advanced inertial guidance system with thrust vectors and manoeuvering capability to reach its target within a few metres of accuracy.

If a warhead is nuclear, it does not matter how many meters away the bomb will fall. But DRDO scientists are working on precision elements to mature various technologies.

A DRDO statement said: Prithvi II, capable of attacking targets at ranges of 350 kms, is India’s earliest developed and inducted, among the indigenous surface to surface strategic missiles. Guided all through by an accurate Inertial Navigation System (INS) and controlled by the thrust vector control and aero-dynamic control systems. In the latest test, the liquid propellant missile reached the predefined target in the Bay of Bengal with a very high accuracy of better than 10 meters.”

The test was described as a user trial, and the missile was picked up randomly from the stock already supplied to the SFC. The test confirmed that the induction with the SFC is successful.

“All the radars and electro optical systems located along the east coast of India tracked and monitored all the parameters of the missile throughout the flight path. An Indian Naval ship located near the target in Bay of Bengal, witnessed the final event.

Those present included Project Director Siva Subramanyam, Programme Director Adalat Ali, Director DRDL AK Chakraborti, RCI Associate Director G Satheesh Reddy, and Director TBRL Dr Manjit Singh.