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Saturday, June 19, 2010

India Test Fires First Home-Grown Nuclear Missile

Prithvi-IIIndia successfully test-fired a nuclear-capable, short range ballistic missile Friday. The test was conducted under India's Integrated Guided Missile Development Program and reported by state media.

The surface-to-surface Prithvi-II is India's first domestically produced ballistic missile. The missile, mounted on a mobile launcher, blasted off from the Chandipur firing range on the ITR complex in the eastern state of Orissa around 6:50 a.m. Friday.

Defense officials said the 30-foot-long missile has a range with a range of 217 miles and payload capacity of 1,100 pounds. India conducted an earlier test on the device from the same base on March 27.

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