Jullundur, Punjab
The Washington Post reported on 03 June 1997 that India had moved some Prithvi missiles to a prospective launch site near the border in Punjab. The report, quoting US intelligence officials, claimed that "fewer than a dozen" missiles had been deployed near the city of Jullundur in the first operational deployment of the Prithvi missile. The US intelligence community was reportedly divided as to whether a fully operational launch capability had been deployed to Jullundur, with one source noting that "the best judgment" was that such a capability was not present. Although the Prithvi is an Army system, it is possible that the deployment was to the nearby Indian Air Force Adampur airbase, which would have facilitated aerial transport of the missiles from their Hyderabad garrison, as well as providing security and other support services.
The Prithvi missiles are stored in forward Ammunition depot located so that key military installations and major Pakistani towns fall within its range. The 333 Regiment with between two and four dozen Prithvi missiles was originally deployed near the Pakistan border at Jullundur, but as of mid-1999 was reportedly deloyed to a base in Secundrabad, central India.
Photographic Evaluation Report
High resolution imagery is only available from declassified CORONA imagery. As of 28 April 2000 Russian 2-meter resolution KVR-1000 imagery coverage was not available via the SPIN-2 service on TerraServer, nor was archival Space Imaging IKONOS 1-meter imagery available on the CARTERRAT Archive.
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