Balasore, December 7
For the second time in five days, India’s surface-to-air missile Akash was today test fired from the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur, 15 km from here.
The missile, which was test flown on December 3 last from the ITR, was fired from a mobile launcher at 1.40 pm.
Akash was targeted at a moving object attached to the Pilotless Target Aircraft (PTA) which was flown a few minutes earlier.
Whether the experiment was successful or not was not known immediately.
Scientists had on Saturday said the missile, with a range of 25 km, would undergo a few more tests.
With a launch weight of 700 kg, the 5.6 metre long missile had the ability to carry a 60 kg warhead.
The missile had undergone repeated tests in recent months with three launchings within a span of 17 minutes on September 28 last. The experiment was repeated twice on October 3.
— PTI
