India successfully tests nuclear-capable missile Dhanush

Balasore (Orissa), Dec 13 (PTI) India successfully tested
a nuclear-capable ballistic missile 'Dhanush', a naval variant
of Prithvi with 350 km range, from a warship in Bay of Bengal
off the Orissa coast.
The single-stage ship-based missile was flight-tested at
around 11.31 am (IST) from INS Subhadra ship 35-km off shore
the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur near here,
defence officials said.
Describing the trial as successful, ITR director S P Dash
said, "It has met all the mission objectives and all the
events occurred as expected and also monitored by the range of
sensors. It was a text book launch and fantastic mission
accomplished."
'Dhanush' has a payload capacity of 500 kg and is capable
of carrying both conventional and nuclear warheads. It can hit
both sea and shore-based targets.
The missile, which has liquid propellant, is the naval
version of India's indigenously developed surface-to-surface
'Prithvi' missile system, the officials said.
The test launch of 'Dhanush', developed by Defence
Research and Development Organisation, was carried out by
Navy, a DRDO press release said.
"Today's test was tracked from its take-off to impact
point through an integrated network of sophisticated radars
and electro-optic instruments for post-mission data analyses,"
the officials said. MORE PTI