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Download Solution PDFIndia’s short-range Ballistic Missile, Prithvi II was successfully test-fired from ______.
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Download Solution PDFThe correct answer is Chandipur, Odisha.
- A ballistic missile is a weapon that is shot through the sky over a great distance and then falls to the ground and explodes.
- DRDO successfully test launched the short-range ballistic missile in January 2023 from Odisha State.
- Prithvi-II was carried out on January 10, 2023, from the Integrated Test Range, Chandipur off the coast of Odisha.
- Prithvi-II is an indigenously developed Surface-to-Surface Missile Short-Range Ballistic Missile (SRBM).
- Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) is a military research and development wing of the Ministry of Defence, with headquarters in New Delhi, India. It was founded in 1958.
- Prithvi missile was India’s first indigenous ballistic missile.
- Wheeler Island, also known as Dr Abdul Kalam Island, is an island on the off-shores of Odisha in India, which hosts the Integrated Test Range missile testing facility.
- It is operated by the Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO).
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