On May 21, India successfully test fired its BrahMos cruise missile at the Integrated Test Range in Chandipur in eastern India. According to the Indian Ministry of Defense, the test proves “the efficacy and longevity of the system.” MoD also reported that “the missile flew in its designated trajectory and the key components functioned perfectly.” The BrahMos...
On April 27, the Indian Air Force successfully test fired the Derby beyond-visual-range (BVR) air-to-air missile at a test site off the Goa coast. The Rafael manufactured missile was fired from a Tejas Light Combat Aircraft, to “expand the firing envelope as well as to demonstrate safe operation of the aircraft during missile plume ingestion...
On March 22, India conducted a successful test fire of its BrahMos cruise missile. The test took place at the Pokhran test range in Rajasthan, northwest India, and used a missile fitted with an indigenously developed seeker rather than the standard Russian-supplied variant. The BrahMos was fired from a transporter-erector-launcher (TEL). Indian Defense Minister Nirmala...
On February 23, India’s Strategic Forces Command (SFC) test fired a Dhanush ballistic missile from an Indian Navy vessel in the Bay of Bengal. The missile was fired off an Indian Navy Sukyana-class offshore patrol vessel, either the INS Subhadra or INS Suvarna. The Dhanush launch comes amid a busy schedule of Indian ballistic missile...
On February 21, India’s Strategic Forces Command (SFC) test fired a Prithvi-2 tactical surface-to-surface short-range ballistic missile. The missile was fired at night from launch complex 3 of the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur. The Prithvi-2 missile entered service in 2003, and was recently test fired on February 7. It has a range of...
On February 20, India’s Strategic Forces Command (SFC) test fired an Agni-2 medium-range ballistic missile. The launch comes just two weeks after test launches of an Agni-1 and Prithvi-2, and took place at India’s Integrated Test Range off the coast of Odisha. The Agni-2 was previously test fired in May 2017, but failed for unknown...
On February 7, India successfully test fired a Prithvi-2 short-range ballistic missile. The launch came one day after an Agni-1 test launch, and took place at India’s Integrated Test Range off the coast of Odisha. The Prithvi-2 missile entered service in 2003, and was previously test fired in November 2016 and June 2017. It has...
On February 6, India successfully test fired its Agni-1 missile. The TEL-based launch took place from the Integrated Test Range off the Odisha coast. According to defense officials, the launch was scheduled as part of a periodic training cycle by the Strategic Forces Command (SFC) of the Army to test the operational readiness of India’s...
On January 18, India conducted its fifth test launch of the nuclear-capable Agni-5 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). The missile was fired from a road-mobile launcher stationed in Abdul Kalam Island, off Odisha State in eastern India, just before 10 a.m. (local time). It traveled over 4,800 km in approximately 19 minutes. According to India’s Ministry...
On December 17, India failed an attempted launch of a K-4 submarine-launched ballistic missile from a submerged pontoon. Indian officials have not released a cause of failure, but according to one Indian news source, the it was caused by “a failure in the missile’s ignition following its ejection from the submerged pontoon.” The K-4 is...
