India on Wednesday successfully conducted a maiden flight test of its indigenously developed surface-to-surface ballistic missile "Pralay" off the coast of Odisha. All the sensors deployed near the impact point across the eastern coast, including the downrange ships, tracked the missile trajectory and captured all the events,” it stated. Read more: India successfully test-fires new generation Agni Prime missileThe missile is powered by a solid-propellant rocket motor and many new technologies. The Pralay test came just one day after India announced that it had begun deploying the Russian S-400 air defence missile system in Punjab, India's northern state near Pakistan border. This comes days after India tested its own next-generation nuclear-capable ballistic missile, Agni-P.

Source: The Express Tribune December 22, 2021 23:22 UTC