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India successfully test fires 'Shaurya' missile
Balasore (Orissa), Nov 12 (PTI) India on Wednesday successfully test fired 'Shaurya', a medium-range surface-to-surface ballistic missile, to be used by its Army.
With a 600-km range, the missile is capable of hitting
targets deep inside Pakistan and China.
The indigenous missile was launched from an underground
facility with an in-built canister at 11.25 am (local time)
from Complex-3 of the Integrated Test Range at
Chandipur, Defense Research and Development Organisatrion
(D.R.D.O.) sources said here.
The sleek missile, with a flight duration of 485 seconds,
roared into the sky leaving behind a thick yellow and white
smoke on a clear sunny day, they added.
The sophisticated tactical missile is capable of carrying
conventional warheads with a payload of about one tonne.
"With longer shelf-life, as it is stored in a canister
just like the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile, the Shaurya
is easily transportable and user-friendly. This is a
technology development project," DRDO sources told PTI in New
Delhi.
Though there was speculation that the missile was a
land version of the under development K-15 submarine launched
ballistic missile, D.R.D.O. sources said the
surface-to-surface missile had nothing to do with K-15
'Sagarika' project.
"The missile was test fired from a 30-40 feet deep pit
with in-built canister specially designed for the purpose.
There was no water in the pit," the sources said.
"The test was conducted to check some of the vital
parameters of Shaurya missile," the D.R.D.O. sources said.
The solid propellant, two-staged missile is little over
10 metres in length and about half-a-metre in width, they
said.
During the test, the missile took off vertically and
its entire trajectory was tracked through an integrated system
of sophisticated radars, electro-optical tracking instruments,
a chain of telemetry stations positioned in different points
and two naval ships placed close to the impact point deep in
the Bay of Bengal.
As a precautionary measure, the district administration
of Balasore temporarily evacuated 364 families residing within
two km radius of the launch site and took them to safety at a
nearby shelter before the missile test.
The launch of Shaurya has come nearly nine months after
India had successfully tested the 'Sagarika' missile under the
K-15 project this February off the coast of Visakhapatnam from
a pontoon simulating the conditions of a submarine. PTI CORR
SAK
With a 600-km range, the missile is capable of hitting
targets deep inside Pakistan and China.
The indigenous missile was launched from an underground
facility with an in-built canister at 11.25 am (local time)
from Complex-3 of the Integrated Test Range at
Chandipur, Defense Research and Development Organisatrion
(D.R.D.O.) sources said here.
The sleek missile, with a flight duration of 485 seconds,
roared into the sky leaving behind a thick yellow and white
smoke on a clear sunny day, they added.
The sophisticated tactical missile is capable of carrying
conventional warheads with a payload of about one tonne.
"With longer shelf-life, as it is stored in a canister
just like the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile, the Shaurya
is easily transportable and user-friendly. This is a
technology development project," DRDO sources told PTI in New
Delhi.
Though there was speculation that the missile was a
land version of the under development K-15 submarine launched
ballistic missile, D.R.D.O. sources said the
surface-to-surface missile had nothing to do with K-15
'Sagarika' project.
"The missile was test fired from a 30-40 feet deep pit
with in-built canister specially designed for the purpose.
There was no water in the pit," the sources said.
"The test was conducted to check some of the vital
parameters of Shaurya missile," the D.R.D.O. sources said.
The solid propellant, two-staged missile is little over
10 metres in length and about half-a-metre in width, they
said.
During the test, the missile took off vertically and
its entire trajectory was tracked through an integrated system
of sophisticated radars, electro-optical tracking instruments,
a chain of telemetry stations positioned in different points
and two naval ships placed close to the impact point deep in
the Bay of Bengal.
As a precautionary measure, the district administration
of Balasore temporarily evacuated 364 families residing within
two km radius of the launch site and took them to safety at a
nearby shelter before the missile test.
The launch of Shaurya has come nearly nine months after
India had successfully tested the 'Sagarika' missile under the
K-15 project this February off the coast of Visakhapatnam from
a pontoon simulating the conditions of a submarine. PTI CORR
SAK
