Dhanush missile test fired successfully
March 11th, 2011 - 2:27 pm ICT by ANIBhubaneswar, Mar 11 (ANI): India on Friday test fired its nuclear-capable ballistic missile ‘Dhanush’, which has a range of 350 km, from a naval ship off the Orissa coast.
The missile was fired by Indian Navy personnel as part of a user training exercise.
The single-stage ship-based missile was flight-tested at around 10. a.m.
Dhanush has a pay-load capacity of 500 kg and is capable of carrying both conventional and nuclear warheads. The missile, which has liquid propellant, is the naval version of India’s indigenously developed surface-to-surface “Prithvi” missile system.
Dhanush, developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), was put to trial jointly by a team of scientists and officers from the Navy.
Though the missile had failed in its first test at the development stage on April 11, 2000 due to certain technical problems in the take-off stage, subsequent trials were successful. “Dhanush” was successfully flight tested last on March 27, 2010 from INS Subhadra in the Bay of Bengal off Orissa coast. (ANI)
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