<p>The 7.3-metre-long missile weighing about 1,280 kg was test fired from a mobile launcher parked at the launch pad number three of the premier missile testing centre at 8:20 am.<br /><br />“The missile equipped with state-of-the-art high accuracy navigation, guidance and electro mechanical actuation systems with latest onboard computer achieved terminal accuracy of less than 10 metres,” a statement released by the ITR, Chandipur said.<br /><br />The flight path of the indigenously developed missile was tracked and monitored by various radar and electro optical systems located at different places along the Orissa coast. A ship of the Indian Navy anchored near the target point in the Bay of Bengal witnessed the final event.<br /><br />Aimed at providing the Indian Army a cost effective, quick reaction, all weather and all terrain high accurate battle field tactical support system, the newly launched missile which has the capability to hit a target at a distance of 150 km carrying different types of warheads up to 200 kg has been developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation scientists in a short span of less than two years.<br /><br />“The sophisticated missile which can be compared to ATACMS missile of the US goes to a height of 35 km before hitting the target at a range of 150 km in about 250 seconds,” sources said. Another feature of the missile is that as many as six of these missiles can be fired from a mobile launcher simultaneously. “Prahaar is launched from a Road Mobile System which can carry six missiles at a time and can be fired in salvo mode in all directions,” the statement released by the ITR said. <br /><br />A number of senior DRDO scientists and officials from the Ministry of Defence besides Dr V K Saraswat, the scientific advisor to the defence minister and ITR director S P Dash witnessed the successful launch of the missile. The Balasore district administration had shifted about 400 people from five villages surrounding the ITR as a precautionary measure before the test firing of the missile. <br /><br />They were housed in temporary camps set up by the district administration and were given daily allowances, an official in the Balasore district administration said.<br /></p>
<p>The 7.3-metre-long missile weighing about 1,280 kg was test fired from a mobile launcher parked at the launch pad number three of the premier missile testing centre at 8:20 am.<br /><br />“The missile equipped with state-of-the-art high accuracy navigation, guidance and electro mechanical actuation systems with latest onboard computer achieved terminal accuracy of less than 10 metres,” a statement released by the ITR, Chandipur said.<br /><br />The flight path of the indigenously developed missile was tracked and monitored by various radar and electro optical systems located at different places along the Orissa coast. A ship of the Indian Navy anchored near the target point in the Bay of Bengal witnessed the final event.<br /><br />Aimed at providing the Indian Army a cost effective, quick reaction, all weather and all terrain high accurate battle field tactical support system, the newly launched missile which has the capability to hit a target at a distance of 150 km carrying different types of warheads up to 200 kg has been developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation scientists in a short span of less than two years.<br /><br />“The sophisticated missile which can be compared to ATACMS missile of the US goes to a height of 35 km before hitting the target at a range of 150 km in about 250 seconds,” sources said. Another feature of the missile is that as many as six of these missiles can be fired from a mobile launcher simultaneously. “Prahaar is launched from a Road Mobile System which can carry six missiles at a time and can be fired in salvo mode in all directions,” the statement released by the ITR said. <br /><br />A number of senior DRDO scientists and officials from the Ministry of Defence besides Dr V K Saraswat, the scientific advisor to the defence minister and ITR director S P Dash witnessed the successful launch of the missile. The Balasore district administration had shifted about 400 people from five villages surrounding the ITR as a precautionary measure before the test firing of the missile. <br /><br />They were housed in temporary camps set up by the district administration and were given daily allowances, an official in the Balasore district administration said.<br /></p>
