Akash Trial Successful

After a ‘failed’ test on Tuesday, Indian Air Force successfully carried out another user trial of surface-to-air missile Akash from Integrated Test Range (ITR) off the Odisha coast on Wednesday. The missile targeted an aircraft, which mimicked the enemy fighter aircraft.

The indigenously developed sophisticated sleek missile having a strike range of 30 km was fired from the launching complex-III of the ITR at about 1.15 pm.

On Tuesday, the missile had failed to hit the target.

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