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BHUBANESHWAR (India) Jan 30: India test fired a short-range suface-to-air missile on Monday, the third launch in three days, a defense ministry official said.
The missile was launched from the government’s main testing centre along the country’s eastern coast.
The missile, named Akash, has a range of 25 kilometres, carries a 60-kilogram payload and is designed to hit several incoming aircraft simultaneously, the official said.
He said Akash missiles were test fired twice on Saturday, launched five minutes apart, from a mobile launcher.—AFP
