New Delhi:
The first night test firing of India's 2000 km plus range nuclear capable ballistic missile, Agni-II from the Wheeler's Island 10 km from Balasore inside the Bay of Bengal has failed.
It is for the first time that, the Strategic Forces Command personnel along with scientists from Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) were conducting this trial during night.
Sources have told NDTV that the test failed to meet many parametres after it was fired off at 1950 hours on Monday night.
According to a defence source, "The indigenously developed surface-to-surface missile was test fired from a rail mobile launcher from the Integrated Test Range (ITR) launch pad - 4."
The two-stage solid propelled missile has a launch weight of 17 tonnes and approximately 20 meters in height. It can carry a pay load of one tonne over 2000 km.