'ASTRA' testfired for the first time from ITR
Balasore, Orissa, May 9 (UNI) India today for the first time
successfully testfired air-to-air short range missile 'ASTRA' from
the Integrated Test Range(ITR) at Chandipur-on-sea, about 15 kms
from here.
According to ITR sources, the guided missile, having a striking
range between 10 to 25 km, was testfired at 1215 hours.
Developed indigenously by the Defence Research Development
Organisation (DRDO), the missile, ITR sources said met the mission
successfully.
This was the maiden testfire of the missile from the ITR which,
sources said, had been developed keeping in view the three-pronged
defence system for metropolitian cities, particularly after the
September 11 incident.
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