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India test-fires ballistic missile from underwater platform

The medium range K-5 ballistic missile has a strike range of around 1,500 km

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Press Trust of India New Delhi

Moving a step closer to completing its nuclear triad, India today successfully test-fired a ballistic missile, with a strike range of around 1,500 kilometres, from an underwater platform in Bay of Bengal.

"The medium range K-5 ballistic missile was test fired successfully today from an underwater pontoon and all parameters of the test firing were met," DRDO chief V K Saraswat told PTI from the undisclosed test area.

Nuclear triad is the ability to fire nuclear-tipped missiles from land, air and sea.

Saraswat said that the development phase of the K-5 missile, which is a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM), was over and it was now ready for deployment on various platforms including the indigenous nuclear submarine INS Arihant which is under development.

 

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First Published: Jan 27 2013 | 7:26 PM IST

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