India successfully tests 'Pralay' missile off Odisha coast: DRDO
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'Pralay' is a 350-500 km short-range, surface-to-surface missile with a payload capacity of 500-1,000 kg. A battery of tracking instruments monitored its trajectory along the coast line, they said.
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India on Wednesday successfully test fired short-range, surface to surface-guided ballistic missile 'Pralay' off the Odisha coast, DRDO sources said. The solid-fuel, battlefield missile developed by Defence Research Development Organisation is based on Prithvi Defence Vehicle from the Indian ballistic missile programme.
A battery of tracking instruments monitored its trajectory along the coast line, they said.
'Pralay' is a 350-500 km short-range, surface-to-surface missile with a payload capacity of 500-1,000 kg.
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The missile, launched from the APJ Abdul Kalam Island around 10.30 am, met all the mission objectives, the sources said. A battery of tracking instruments monitored its trajectory along the coast line, they said.
'Pralay' is a 350-500 km short-range, surface-to-surface missile with a payload capacity of 500-1,000 kg.
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