India testfires missile

Published November 4, 2004

BHUBANESHWAR, Nov 3: India on Wednesday test-fired for a sixth time the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile it has developed jointly with Russia, defence officials said.

"The BrahMos missile was launched at 11.18am (1048am PST) from the Indian destroyer INS Rajput off the Bay of Bengal and it successfully hit a target at sea," said the defence official.

India last fired its BrahMos, 280-kilometre range missile in November last year. It will arm Indian warships and submarines, and has been tested six times since its development by Indian and Russian experts.-AFP

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