New Delhi: India successfully test-fired supersonic cruise missile Brahmos on Sunday at Chandipur, Orissa.
After a vertical lift-off at 1215 hours IST, the surface-to-surface missile rose into the sky leaving behind a ribbon of white smoke, defence sources said.
"The launch was successful but we will have to analyse data for making an evaluation," a source told PTI.
The launch was carried out from a mobile launcher, with an indigenously built multi-axle Tatra truck serving as the base platform.
The route of the missile's flight was tracked by sophisticated instruments and radars on a ship located close to the point of impact in the Bay of Bengal, the sources said.
The Brahmos, named after the Brahmaputra and Moskva rivers, was developed by a joint venture company set up by India and Russia following an agreement signed by the two countries on February 12, 1998.
Since its first test on June 12, 2001 it has undergone a dozen successful trials.
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