India test fires second nuclear-capable missile in 10 days

Prithvi-II is an indigenously developed surface-to-surface missile, which has a range of around 250 km and can carry a one tonne payload.

The government said in a statement that a “successful training launch of a Short-Range Ballistic Missile, Prithvi-II” was carried out Wednesday at 7:30pm from the Integrated Test Range, Chandipur, Odisha(Source: @DDNational/Twitter)

NEARLY 10 days after conducting a routine test of its nuclear-capable Agni missile, India on Wednesday carried out a test on its other nuclear-capable missile, Prithvi.

The government said in a statement that a “successful training launch of a Short-Range Ballistic Missile, Prithvi-II” was carried out at 7.30 pm on Wednesday from the Integrated Test Range in Chandipur, Odisha.

“The missile is a proven system and is capable of striking targets with a very high degree of precision,” the statement said, adding that the “user training launch successfully validated all operational and technical parameters of the missile”.

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Prithvi-II is an indigenously developed surface-to-surface missile, which has a range of around 250 km and can carry one-ton payload.

The test comes days after India tested its Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile Agni-IV on June 6, which can travel as far as 4,000 km. After the “routine user training” launch test of Agni-IV, the government had said that the successful test “reaffirms India’s policy of having a Credible Minimum Deterrence Capability”.

The tests come at a time when globally there appears to be a revamp of nuclear capabilities.

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