Showing posts with label odissa coast. Show all posts
Showing posts with label odissa coast. Show all posts

Monday, August 27, 2012

prithvi 2- tested again successfully

                                       
A single stage liquid fueled surface to surface missile capable of carrying a nuclear war head  was tested successfully on Saturday, from the Integrated test range near in Balasore in Odissa as a part of user trial by the army. A 9metre length and 1metre diametre carrying 500kg duplicate payload had hit the prefixed target in Bay of Bengal.  It was first test-fired on January 27, 1996 and the development stages were completed in 2004. This variant has been inducted in to the Army as well.though it is a ballistic missile , it do has the capacity to work as an Anti ballistic missile also.After a failed test on 24 September 2010 , two more missiles were launched on December 22, 2010 which proved to be complete success.  

Friday, August 17, 2012

agni II - 3rd successfull test

Agni 2 roars again into the space to hit target at a distance of 2000km in 700 sec from the wheeler island ,Odissa coast on 9th august , 2012. As we know that Agni 2 is the Indian prestigious Nuclear capable middle range ballistic missile, It was again tested successfully , the 3rd time. It was first tested on 11th april 1999 and then on  17th may 2010.
                                                    
 with a 2 staged solid fueled engine and a temporary payload which  would not cause any great damage , was used to hit the prefixed target in Bay of Bengal , where 2 of our navy force ships were present at the near by position to the target . They declared that the missile had hit the target with in a range of few metres.