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Monday, March 26, 2007

India's Astra missile tested after a long gap

After a gap of nearly four years, indigenously developed Astra air-to-air missile was tested from the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur near here on Sunday.

The sleek beyond visual range missile with a range of 80 km was fired from launch complex-II of the ITR, 15 km from here, at 11.56 am, defence sources said.

However, plans to test the Dhanush, the naval version of the home-grown Prithvi surface-to-surface missile from a warship in the Bay of Bengal off the Orissa coast were postponed, they said.

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