Bhubaneswar, Dec 1 (IANS) India Thursday successfully test-fired its indigenously developed nuclear-capable surface-to-surface Agni-I missile from a military base in Odisha, a defence official said.

The missile, which can strike a target 700 km away, was tested by armed forces at 9.30 a.m. from a facility on Wheeler Island near Dhamra in Bhadrak district, 170 km from here.

It was launched from road mobile launcher system and reached the target point in the Bay of Bengal, S.P. Dash, director of the local test range, told IANS.

The missile was tracked by radar, telemetry stations located along the coastline. Two naval ships located near the target point tracked the missile in the terminal phase of the flight, he said.

Bhubaneswar, Nov 25 (IANS) India Thursday successfully tested its nuclear capable surface-to-surface Agni I missile from a test range in Orissa, a defence official said.

The missile, which can strike a target 700 km away, was tested by army personnel as part of user-trials from a facility on Wheeler Island in the district of Bhadrak, about 200 km from here, director of the test range S.P. Dash told IANS.

He described it as a ‘text book’ launch.

Agni is an intermediate range ballistic missile. developed under India’s Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme and first tested in May 1989.