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Wednesday, April 15, 2009

India successfully testfires nuclear-capable Prithvi II missile

Prithvi-IIIndia Wednesday successfully testfired the latest version of its nuclear-capable Prithvi II short range ballistic missile at Chandipur in the eastern Indian state of Orissa's Balasore district, a senior Indian Defence Ministry official said.

"The army version of indigenously developed Prithvi II surface-to-surface ballistic missile, with a range of 350 km, was testfired at 10:30 a.m. (0500 GMT) this morning from a mobile launcher, some 20 km off Orissa's sea coast," the official said, on condition of anonymity.

The earlier version of the missile has already been inducted into the Indian armed force's for its elite Strategic Force Command Special Group.

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