Ques: Recently India test-fired its indigenously developed Prithvi-II missile from Chandipur in Balasore district of Orissa. When the deployment of the Army Strategic Force Command was held?
(a) Year 2004
(b) Year 2003
(c) Year 2006
(d) Year 2005
Ans (b)
Related facts:
- On 16 February 2016 India test-fired its indigenously developed Prithvi-II missile from Chandipur in Balasore district of Orissa.
- The missile test was carried out from a mobile launcher from launch complex-3 of the Integrated Test Range (ITR).
- The trial of the missile was conducted by the specially formed Strategic Force Command (SFC).
- With a strike range of 350 km Prithvi-II is a surface-to-surface missile.
- It is capable of carrying 500 kg to 1,000 kg of warheads.
- Prithvi II is 9 meter long a single-stage liquid-fuelled missile and is thrusted by liquid propulsion twin engines.
- Inducted into India’s armed forces in 2003, Prithvi II, the first missile is developed by DRDO under India’s prestigious IGMDP (Integrated Guided Missile Development Program) is now a proven technology.
- The last user trial of Prithvi-II was successfully conducted on November 26, 2015 from the same test range in Orissa.