{"id":326777,"date":"2020-09-24T06:44:35","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T06:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=326777"},"modified":"2020-09-24T06:44:37","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T06:44:37","slug":"india-successfully-conducts-night-trial-of-indigenously-developed-nuclear-capable-prithvi-ii-missile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/india-successfully-conducts-night-trial-of-indigenously-developed-nuclear-capable-prithvi-ii-missile\/","title":{"rendered":"India successfully conducts night trial of indigenously developed nuclear-capable Prithvi-II missile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/india-successfully-conducts-night-trial-of-indigenously-developed-nuclear-capable-prithvi-ii-missile\/prithvi\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-326778\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-326778 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/prithvi-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"526\" height=\"421\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/09\/prithvi-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/09\/prithvi-526x420.jpg 526w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/09\/prithvi.jpg 566w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 526px) 100vw, 526px\" \/><\/a>India has successfully conducted the night trial of the indigenously developed nuclear-capable Prithvi-II ballistic missile on Wednesday from the Interim test range, Balasore in Odisha.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">The trial was conducted by the strategic forces command of the Indian Army.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Prithvi-II, capable of attacking targets at a range of 350 km, is India\u2019s first indigenously developed surface-to-surface strategic missile. The missile was first introduced into service in 2003 and can alternatively be armed with 500 to 1,000 kilogram conventional or nuclear warheads.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">The test came after DRDO successfully test-fired Laser-Guided Anti Tank Guided Missile (ATGM) from MBT Arjun Tank at KK Ranges, Armoured Corps Centre and School (ACC&amp;S) Ahmednagar on September 22.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India has successfully conducted the night trial of the indigenously developed nuclear-capable Prithvi-II ballistic missile on Wednesday from the Interim test range, Balasore in Odisha. The trial was conducted by the strategic forces command of the Indian Army. Prithvi-II, capable of attacking targets at a range of 350 km, is India\u2019s first indigenously developed surface-to-surface [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":326778,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[13472],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326777"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326777"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326780,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326777\/revisions\/326780"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/326778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}