The country's most sophisticated short-range surface-to-air missile Trishul was test-fired from a range near here today, defence sources said.
The missile was test fired from a mobile launcher at the integrated test range at Chandipur-on-Sea, about 15 km from here, at about 11.50 am.
Trishul was targeted at a micro-light aircraft that had been flown in earlier.
Powered by a two-stage solid propellant engine, the missile was fired over a range of nine kilometres.
The range of the missile, indigenously developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), could be enhanced with the completion of trials, the sources said.
Trishul, about three metres in length and 200 cm in diameter, flies at supersonic speed and is capable of carrying a 15-kg payload.
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