The supersonic cruise missile was fired from a mobile launcher at 12:10pm amidst heavy rains caused by a deep depression in the Bay of Bengal, which crossed the Orissa coast around the same time.
Akash was aimed at a target attached to Lakshya, the pilotless target aircraft.
With a range of 25km, Akash is one of the five missiles currently under development by the Defence Research and Development Organisation.
Nirbhay, India's first home-grown subsonic cruise missile, was on Friday successfully test-launched from the Interim Test Range in Chandipur, near Balasore in Orissa.
The state government has instructed officials in coastal districts and various departments to be alert to tackle any emergency situation
India on Sunday successfully test-fired a new interceptor missile capable of neutralising any incoming long-range missile at higher altitude.
Lakshya is the indigenously developed Pilotless Target Aircraft.
Cutting across party lines, chief ministers and others leaders urged the people to follow the self-imposed curfew from 7 am to 9 pm, noting that "social distancing" was key to breaking the chain of infection, as the number of coronavirus cases rose to 283 after 60 new cases were detected on Saturday, the highest so far in a day, and states like Maharashtra, Odisha and Bihar imposed partial lockdown till month end.
The missile was aimed at a moving object, sources said.
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The supersonic anti-ship cruise missile was jointly developed by India and Russia.
In its third list of candidates for the coming Lok Sabha elections, the Congress on Tuesday fielded 58 candidates, mostly tried and tested ones. While most sitting ministers, including Kapil Sibal (Chandni Chowk), Krishna Tirath (Northwest Delhi), Sachin Pilot (Ajmer) and Srikant Jena (Balasore) were retained, the surprise elements were state Youth Congress President Vishwajeet Kadam replacing tainted Suresh Kalmadi from Pune and cricketer Mohammed Azharuddin from Tonk-Sawai Madhopur (Rajasthan).
The indigenously built multi-target missile has a range of 25km and is one of the five missiles under various stages of development by the DRDO.
It hit a target dropped from an AN-32 aircraft.
The indigenously built multi-target missile can carry a 50kg payload.
Astra is an indigenously developed air-to-air missile.
DRDO scientists, who conducted the test, described it as a user's trial.
After achieving the precision guidance capability from a fixed launcher in its fourth trial on October 29 last, the missile was on Sunday test-fired from a mobile launcher.
The missile, weighing 650kg, can carry a 50kg payload over a distance of 25km.
This variant of the missile takes just 300 seconds to reach a target located at a distance of 150km.
The sleek 3.8 metre high missile has a striking range of 25 to 40 km.
The DRDO has so far conducted 16 trials of the army version of the missile since its first trial on February 22, 1988.
The air-to-air missile is to form the main interception armour of the indigenously developed Light Combat Aircraft.
This was the fifth experimental test of the homegrown missile system.
The medium range surface-to-air missile was on Monday fired from a mobile launcher.
A last minute snag in some sub-systems on Friday led to the postponement of the tests.
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India's indigenously developed Pinaka rockets were on Thursday successfully test-fired thrice from a multi-barrel rocket launcher at an armament base in Chandipur-on-sea, about 15 km from Balasore in Odisha.
An earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale hit Myanmar, tremors of which shook the northeast, several parts of West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand and even Delhi and NCR on Wednesday.
'In being dismissive of Naveen, his colleagues showed incredible naivety.' 'On the few occasions that he put his foot down, the overconfident party leaders, who believed they were using him and not the other way around, failed to read the signs of what was to come.'
India on Saturday successfully conducted two rounds of trials of its indigenously developed surface-to-air Akash missile as part of a user trial by the Indian Air Force from the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur near Balasore in Odisha.
India on Friday successfully test-fired its indigenously developed nuclear-capable surface-to-surface Prithvi II missile, with a range of 350 km, from a test range near Balasore as part of a user trial by the Army.
The cyclone would bring light to moderate rains at most places and 'heavy to very heavy downpour' at some places on November 6.
The storm is India's strongest tropical cyclone to make landfall in 20 years.
Describing the launch of the sophisticated missile as a complete success, ITR Director M V K V Prasad said all the mission parameters were met during the trial. "The missile was randomly chosen from the production stock and the launch activities were carried out by the specially formed Strategic Force Command and monitored by scientists of Defence Research and Development Organisation as part of training exercise," sources said.
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