India test-fires Prithvi's naval version Dhanush
Balasore, Oct 5: India successfully test-fired nuclear capable Dhanush, the naval version of Prithvi short-range ballistic missile, from a warship off Odisha coast today. The indigenously developed naval version of the Prithvi short-range ballistic missile has a strike range of up to 350 km and can carry 500 kg of conventional or nuclear warhead, a DRDO official said. "Dhanush was test-fired from a naval ship off Odisha coast at around 1125 hours," Ravi Kumar Gupta, Director in the Directorate of Public Interface in Defence Research and Development Organisation told PTI over phone.Describing the trial as fully successful, Gupta said the test was conducted by the strategic force command of the Indian Navy. This single stage missile uses liquid propellant.The Dhanush missile can be used as an anti-ship weapon as well as for destroying land targets depending on the range, sources said.
India successfully test fires 'nuclear capable' Prithvi-II missile from Odisha
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