India test fires Akash missile twice
May 28th, 2012 - 1:18 pm ICT by IANS
Bhubaneswar, May 28 (IANS) India Monday successfully conducted two tests of its medium-range surface-to-air missile Akash from a defence base in Odisha, an official said.
The indigenously developed missile, which has a range of about 27 km and an effective ceiling of 15 km, was test-fired from the Integrated Test Range of Chandipur in the costal district of Balasore, around 230 km from here, as part of the user trials.
“Both the tests were successful,” M.V.K.V. Prasad, director of the test range, told IANS. The Akash missile had been successfully tested from the same range Thursday and Saturday.
Akash has a launch weight of 720 kg and carries a 55 kg payload. It can fly at a speed of up to Mach 2.5 and climb up to an altitude of 18 km. It can operate autonomously, and engage and neutralise different aerial targets simultaneously.
It can be launched from static or mobile platforms providing flexible deployment.
- Indian Air Force twice successfully test fires Akash missile - Jun 01, 2012
- Akash missile test-fired second time in three days - May 26, 2012
- India test-fires medium range Akash missile - May 24, 2012
- India successfully tests supersonic cruise missile - Jul 29, 2012
- India successfully tests BrahMos (Lead) - Jul 29, 2012
- Prithvi-II missile test postponed - Dec 21, 2011
- India test-fires Prithvi-II missile - Aug 25, 2012
- India tests BrahMos supersonic cruise missile - Mar 30, 2012
- India, Pakistan test nuke-tipped missiles on same day (Third Lead) - Mar 11, 2011
- India successfully tests BrahMos supersonic cruise missile (Lead) - Mar 30, 2012
- India, Pakistan successfully test-fire n-capable missiles (Fourth Lead) - Mar 11, 2011
- Agni-II missile successfully test-fired - Aug 09, 2012
- India successfully tests short range missile (Second Lead) - Jul 21, 2011
- Pakistan test-fires 1,300 km missile - Dec 21, 2010
- Pakistan tests nuclear capable, short-range missile (Lead) - Apr 19, 2011
Tags: aerial targets, akash missile, altitude, balasore, chandipur, deployment, fly, India, kg, launch, mach 2, medium range, mobile platforms, prasad, surface to air, surface to air missile, test fires, test range