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India on Thursday successfully test-fired the Prithvi-II,the short range nuclear capable missile from the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur,Balasore district,off the Bay of Bengal with the missile hitting the target with very high accuracy.
Nuclear-capable,surface-to-surface Prithvi-II missile was successfully test-fired for its full range of 350 km on Thursday by the personnel of Strategic Force Command as part of a regular user training exercise.
The missile with a range of 350 km and with a capability to deceive any anti-ballistic missile was fired at 9.05 am as part of the regular training exercise of the armed forces,DRDO sources said.
The missile reached the predefined target with a very high accuracy of better than 10 metres. The missile randomly taken from routine production lot achieved single digit accuracy reaching close to zero circular error probability. Several state-of-the- art radars,electro-optical telemetry stations and a ship located near the target point tracked the entire event.
It was the fourth successful flight within a period of eight months. It has already been inducted by the armed forces,and is handled by the army units attached to the strategic force commands special group.
