The test is part of user trial by the armed forces from Chandipur off Orissa coast.
`The indigenously developed surface-to-surface missile was flight tested at around 8.50 am from a mobile launcher from the Integrated Test Range (ITR) launch complex-III,` pti reported quoting ITR Director S P Dash as saying in Balasore.
The trial, conducted as part of operational exercise, was `fully successful,` he said.
The test firing of the short-range ballistic missile, which has already been inducted into the armed forces, was a `user trial`, defence sources said.
The sleek missile is `handled by the specially raised strategic force command`, they said, adding the missile has a length of 9 meters and is one meter in diameter. It is propelled by two engines than run on liquid fuel.
Prithvi, the first ballistic missile developed under the country`s prestigious Integrated Guided Missile Development Program (IGMDP), has the capability of carrying 500 kg of warhead.
The missile uses advanced inertial guidance system with manoeuvring trajectory.
(Uu.H-AK)
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