India on Thursday test-fired its medium-range nuclear-capable Agni-II missile from an island off the Odisha coast as part of a user trial but the test is understood to have failed to meet the desired parameters.
The trial of the surface-to-surface missile was conducted from a mobile launcher at the Integrated Test Range (ITR) on Abdul Kalam Island at around 10.25 am, reports reaching here said.
The test, however, is believed to have failed to meet the desired parameters.
There was no official word on the test-firing of the missile.
Agni-II, which has a strike range of over 2,000 kms, has already been inducted into the services and on Thursday’s test from launch Complex-4 of the ITR was carried out by the Strategic Forces Command (SFC) as part of a training exercise.
logistic support for it was provided by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), they said.