{"id":89342,"date":"2019-11-21T17:46:01","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T12:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=11800"},"modified":"2019-11-21T17:46:01","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T12:16:01","slug":"india-successfully-conducts-night-test-fire-of-two-prithvi-ballistic-missiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-successfully-conducts-night-test-fire-of-two-prithvi-ballistic-missiles\/","title":{"rendered":"India successfully conducts night test fire of two Prithvi ballistic missiles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong> India has successfully test fired variants of Prithvi-2 missile from the Interim Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur on the night of 20th November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Prithvi missiles<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Prithvi missile is a tactical surface-to-surface short-range ballistic missile (SRBM) developed by DRDO of India under the Integrated Guided Missile Development Program (IGMDP).<\/li><li>\u00a0It is deployed by India&#8217;s Strategic Forces Command.<\/li><li>The Prithvi-I is a short-range, road-mobile, liquid propellant ballistic missile It has a range of 150 km.<\/li><li>The Prithvi-II is a short-range, road-mobile, liquid-propellant ballistic missile.It has range of 250-350 km.It is capable of carrying 500-1,000 kg of warheads.<\/li><li>The Prithvi-III is a short-range, road-mobile, ballistic missile. This model is a departure from the liquid propulsion system of the Prithvi-I and II, as it employs a two-stage, solid propellant motor. It has a range of 350-600 km.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional Information:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Integrated Guided-Missile Development Programme (IGMDP)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The IGDMP was conceived by Dr. APJ. Abdul Kalam to enable India attain self-sufficiency in the field of missile technology. It was approved by the government in 1983. DRDO announced completion of IGDMP in 2008.<\/li><li>The other missiles developed under this programme:<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>o &nbsp; Intermediate Range surface to surface ballistic Missile <strong>Agni<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>o &nbsp; Short range low level surface to air missile <strong>Trishul<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>o &nbsp; Third Generation Anti-tank missile <strong>Nag<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>o &nbsp; medium range Surface-to-air missile <strong>Akash<\/strong><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: India has successfully test fired variants of Prithvi-2 missile from the Interim Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur on the night of 20th November. Facts: About Prithvi missiles Prithvi missile is a tactical surface-to-surface short-range ballistic missile (SRBM) developed by DRDO of India under the Integrated Guided Missile Development Program (IGMDP). \u00a0It is deployed by&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-successfully-conducts-night-test-fire-of-two-prithvi-ballistic-missiles\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">India successfully conducts night test fire of two Prithvi ballistic missiles<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1760],"tags":[6790],"class_list":["post-89342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-polity-and-nation","tag-prithvi-missile","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704864089},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}