• Military

• WMD Menu                           

• Introduction
• Systems
• Facilities
• Agencies
• Operations
• Countries
• Hot Documents
• News
• Reports
• Policy
• Budget
• Congress
• Links

• Intelligence
• Homeland Security
• Space

India`s Surface to Air Trishul Missile test fired again

IRNA

New Delhi, Dec 19, IRNA -- For the second time in two days, Trishul, 
India`s most sophisticated short-range surface-to-air missile, was 
test fired from the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur near 
Balasore on Friday in the Eastern Indian State of Orissa on Tuesday, 
ITR sources said in Balasore. 
According to Press Trust of India (PTI), the sleek missile, 
indigenously developed by India`s Defense Research and Development 
Organization (DRDO), was fired from a mobile launcher at 11:20 a.m. 
(local time) Friday. The sources said that the missile was directed 
at a moving object. 
The solid fuel propellant missile, which can carry a warhead 
weighing 15 kg, has a triple battlefield role for Indian Army, Navy 
and Air Force and has a range of nine km. 
The ongoing trials were intended to gauge the accuracy and various
other parameters of the missile, they said. 
Trishul, which flies at supersonic speed, is part of India`s 
Guided Missile Development Programme (IGMDP). It is about three metres
in length and 20 CM in diameter. 
/211 
End