NEW DELHI: India test-fired a medium-range, nuclear-capable missile on Wednesday from a land-based launcher in eastern India, a defence ministry official said.

The weapon tested was a K-15 missile, an undersea submarine-launched ballistic missile with a range of up to 435 miles (700 kilometres), said the official.

It was fired from a test range in Chandipur in eastern Orissa state, nearly 700 miles southeast of New Delhi.

India and Pakistan usually notify each other ahead of missile launches in keeping with an agreement between the two nations.

India test-fired the K-15 missile from a pontoon immersed in the sea earlier this year.

The Agni 3, in contrast, is India’s longest-range missile, designed to reach 1,900 miles – putting China’s major cities well into range, as well as targets deep in the Middle East.