BY News Desk
(DefenseNews.in): India tested it's most
ambitious weapon -- the K-4 submarine-launched long range ballistic
missile -- twice last month. Top sources tell Livefist that the two
tests, both conducted at less than ceiling range of 3,500 km were
conducted at an undisclosed location in the south Bay of Bengal.
The
two tests on March 7 and March 31 are understood to be the second and
third tests of the K-4. The first test, the details of which remain
shadowy, is understood to have been carried out in March 2014. The K-4, a
submarine-launched derivative of the Agni-III -- but a vastly different
weapon, obviously -- was revealed first by my India Today colleague
Sandeep Unnithan back in 2010. The lower range K-15 submarine-launched
missile was launched in 2013.
The Indian government barely
acknowledges the existence of the K-4, so nobody's expecting anything
official from the DRDO or MoD on the lines of what they put out for
literally every other weapon test, including the doddering Prithvis
(that are up for a progressive phase out soon, but more on that later).
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