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Monday, November 27, 2006

India successfully conducts missile versus missile test

Prithvi missileIndia Monday successfully test fired two home- grown Prithvi-II missiles against each other from different military test ranges on the Orissa coast, defence officials said.

While one missile was test fired from the shore-based Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur-on-sea at 10.15 a.m., the second one went off two minutes later from the Inner Wheeler Island. Both ranges are located 150 km from the state capital Bhubaneswar.

'The missiles successfully collided against each other. We are analysing the data,' ITR Director A.K. Checker told IANS.

The exercise was undertaken under the Prithvi Air Defence Exercise (PADE), being undertaken for the first time to validate its operational effectiveness.

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