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India Tests Surface-To-Air Missile For The Second Time In Three Days
India successfully tested an Indian-built surface-to-air missile Monday for the second time in two days, a defence ministry official said. The missile Akash - meaning sky in Hindi - was tested at a range in eastern Orissa state. It was fired at 11:15 am (0545 GMT) from a mobile launcher at the Chandipur-on-Sea testing range, 200 kilometres (125 miles) northeast of Bhubaneswar, Orissa's state capital, the ministry official said. The 700 kilogramme (1,540 pound) missile, which hit a flying drone, was last tested on Friday. Nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan, who came close to war in 2002 but whose relations have warmed since, frequently test-fire missiles. Akash, which can track 100 targets simultaneously with onboard radar, can move at a speed of 600 metres (1,980 feet) a second and deliver a 55 kilogramme (121 pound) warhead across 27 kilometres (17 miles) in 50 seconds. Akash is being developed by the state-run Defence Research and Development Organisation which launched in 1983 a project to build an array of weapons. It hopes to cap the programme with a ballistic missile which can fly 5,000 kilometres (3,100 miles). In 1999, a year after India and Pakistan tested nuclear weapons, the two countries agreed to notify each other ahead of missile tests. All rights reserved. � 2005 Agence France-Presse. Sections of the information displayed on this page (dispatches, photographs, logos) are protected by intellectual property rights owned by Agence France-Presse. As a consequence, you may not copy, reproduce, modify, transmit, publish, display or in any way commercially exploit any of the content of this section without the prior written consent of Agence France-Presse. Related Links SpaceDaily Search SpaceDaily Subscribe To SpaceDaily Express 
India Successfully Tests Surface-To-Air Missile
New Delhi, India (AFP) Jun 17, 2005India on Friday test-fired a surface-to-air missile from a range in the eastern state of Orissa, defence ministry officials here said.
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