India tests fire Nuclear capable Dhanush missile successfully from Orissa coast
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Balasore ( Orissa) : Senior scientists and officials of Indian Navy were on Sunday burn crackers and distribute sweets after Dhanush, nuclear-capable ballistic missile, successfully test fired from ITR here.
The missile with a range of 350 km has been fired from a naval ship off the Orissa coast.
'Dhanush' has a payload capacity of 500 kg and is capable of carrying both conventional and nuclear warheads.
It can hit both sea and shore-based targets. The missile, which has liquid propellant, is the naval version of India's indigenously developed surface-to-surface 'Prithvi' missile system, the sources said.
"Dhanush, being developed by Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), was put to trial jointly by a team of scientists and officers from the Navy," they said.
Sunday’s test launch has been tracked from its take-off to impact point through an integrated network of sophisticated radars and electro-optic instruments for post-mission data analyses," the sources said.
The missile had failed in its first test at the development stage on April 11, 2000 due to certain technical problems relating to the take-off stage but subsequent trials were successful.
