India Tests Sea-Based Missile From Land

India Tests Sea-Based Missile From Land (NSI News Source Info) BHUBANESWAR - November 12, 2008: India on Nov. 12 conducted a successful test of a missile from its eastern coast, defense sources said. The submarine-based ballistic missile, which has a top range of 700 kilometers (438 miles), was launched from a land-based mobile launcher at the Chandipur-on-Sea testing range in eastern Orissa state. "The test went off well," a defense official said. India had previous tested the K-15 missile from an undersea platform for the first time in February this year, completing its goal of having air-, land- and sea-launched ballistic systems. The K-15 will be deployed on a nuclear submarine that the Indian navy expects to be ready for sea trials by 2009. The Shaurya, with a payload of one ton and a 600-700 km range, is capable of effectively engaging targets in Pakistan and China. The DRDO said the missile was launched from the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur, in eastern India. According to Indian media reports, although there was speculation that the missile was a land version of the K-15 submarine-launched ballistic missile, which is still in development, DRDO sources were quoted as saying the Shaurya is unrelated to the K-15 Sagarika project.