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India tests surface-to-air missile
India has successfully tested a surface-to-air missile as part of accelerated trials of its five separate airborne warfare systems, officials said. The Trishul (Trident) missile was fired from a coastal range in the eastern state of Orissa two days after its multi-target missile Akash, or Sky, was tested from the same location, the officials said. India is developing the Trishul, which was last tested on July 26, for use by the army, navy as well as the airforce, and touts the system as the local version of the anti-missile Patriot system built by US-based Raytheon. Military researchers say the Trishul, which can deliver a 15-kilogramme (33-pound) warhead nine kilometres (5.5 miles), has the best manoeuvrability of missiles of its class developed either by India or its largest military supplier, Russia. The missile is one of five being developed by state-run Defence Research and Development Organisation, which launched a project in 1983 to build an array of weapons. It hopes to cap the project with an inter-continental ballistic missile that can fly 5,000 kilometres (3,100 miles). Nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan, which came close to war in 2002 but began a peace process in January 2004, frequently test-fire missiles. The foreign ministers of the two countries signed an agreement Monday to notify each other 72 hours in advance of ballistic missile tests.
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