India test-fires cruise missile

The missile was fired from a mobile launcher at 12.15pm amidst incessant rains caused by a deep depression in the sea along the Orissa coast, the sources said.

The launching was undertaken following clearance by the meteorological department.

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Jointly developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and Russian organisation NPO Mashin-ostroyenia, the surface-to-surface version of the eight metre-long missile weighing three tonnes can hit a target at a distance of upto 290 km.