Balasore

Surface-to-air Akash missile tested successfully

Balasore (Odisha): Boosting its air defence shield and re-validating operational efficacy, India on Thursday test-fired successfully its indigenously-developed surface-to-air Akash missile from the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur, about 15 km from Balasore. "The user-specific trial, which formed part of the country's routine air defence exercises, was successful," said a Defence Research Development Organisation (DRDO) official associated with the Akash missile project. To re-validate the technology and operational efficacy of...

India test-fires BrahMos cruise missile

Bhubaneswar: India on Thursday test fired the supersonic cruise missile BrahMos from a military base in Orissa, defence sources said. The missile was tested from the Integrated Test Range of Chandipur in Balasore, about 230 km from here, the sources said. India and Russia are jointly designing the BrahMos missile, which is capable of carrying conventional warheads up to 200-300 kg and has a range of 290 km. The missile...

Prithvi missile fails to take off during trial

Balasore (Orissa): India's indigenously developed nuclear capable Prithvi-II ballistic missile failed to take off during a user trial from the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur off the Orissa coast on Friday apparently due to a technical problem, defence sources said. Though the ITR authorities were not immediately available for comment, defence sources said the sophisticated missile could not take off during the planned trial from the launch complex-III of the...

India test-fires interceptor missile

The missile is capable of destroying any incoming hostile ballistic missile off. ...