India Successfully test fires
ballistic missile from Underwater Platform
India today (27.01.13) successfully test fired a ballistic missile, with a
strike range of around 1500 kilometres,
from an underwater platform in the Bay of Bengal. Chief of Defence Research and
Development Organization (DRDO) V K Saraswat told that the medium range K-5
ballistic missile was test-fired from an underwater pontoon. He, however, did
not disclose the area of test firing. The DRDO chief said the development phase
of the submarine-launched ballistic missile K-5, is over
and it is now ready for deployment on various platforms. This missile will help India to achieve the capability of launching nuclear warheads from
underwater facilities. This is the
first missile in the underwater category to have been developed by the country.
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