About Prithvi-II missile

• Prithvi-II missile is the first missile to be developed by DRDO under India’s prestigious IGMDP (Integrated Guided Missile Development Program).
• It is surface-to-surface medium range ballistic missile with a strike range of 350 km.
• The medium range missile is capable of carrying 500 kg to 1000 kg of warheads and is thrusted by liquid propulsion twin engines.
• Prithvi-II  already has been inducted into India’s armed forces in 2003. The last user trial of it was successfully conducted in November 2015 from the same test range.
• Prithvi-I for the Indian Army, Prithvi-II for the Indian Air Force, and Dhanush Missile for Indian Navy.

• Indigenously developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) under the Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme (IGMDP).
• Nag is a third generation fire-and-forget, anti-tank missile developed in India.
• This anti-tank missile, Nag is equipped with Imaging-Infrared seeker which will help in guiding the missile to its target after its launch.
• Operational range is 500m to 4km (Land version), 7-10km (Air-launched).

• Astra missile is indigenously developed by Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and is one of the smallest weapon systems developed by it.
• The all-weather, radar homing missile fuelled by single stage solid fuel and has payload capacity of 15 kg conventional explosives.
• It is air-to-air beyond-visual-range (BVR) all-weather missile that can be launched from different altitudes.
• The 60-km plus range missile possesses Shot Kill Probability (SSKP) making it one of the most reliable in its class of weapon systems.
• DRDO and Indian Air Force is looking to integrate the missile with fighter aircraft including Sukhoi-30 MKI, Mirage-2000, MiG-29, Jaguar and the Tejas Light Combat Aircraft (LCA).
• It can engage targets in head-on up to 80 km and tail-chase up to 20 km modes. It can reach up to altitude of 110 km when fired from an altitude of 15 km.
• It is capable of engaging and destroying highly maneuverable supersonic aerial targets and can destroy enemy aircraft at supersonic speed of 1.2 Mach to 1.4 Mach.

Long Range Surface-to-Air Missile (LRSAM) was on 27 November 2015 successfully flight-tested for the first time from an Israeli Naval Platform.

• LRSAM is also called Barak 8 missile in Israel which in Hebrew language means Lightning.
• Barak 8 is an advanced, long-range missile defence , air defence system.  and it's main features are long range, active radar seeker missile, vertical launch and multiple simultaneous engagements.
• For the LRSAM, DRDO has developed dual pulse propulsion system along with other safety arm mechanisms for Solid Propulsion system.
• The LRSAM programme consists of Missiles, Weapon Control System, MFSTAR (Radar), Vertical Launcher unit and two- way data link.
• It is capable to counter a wide variety of air-borne threats such as anti-ship missiles, aircraft, UAVs and drones as well as supersonic cruise missiles.

Indigenously developed nuclear capable surface-to-surface ballistic missile Agni-I was successfully test-fired from  Abdul Kalam Island (Wheeler Island) Odisha coast.as part of Strategic Forces Command (SFC) training exercise

About Agni I Missile

• The DRDO had launched the Agni project in 1983 as Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme in India. The missile was first launched on January 25, 2002, and can be fired from road and rail mobile launchers..
• Features: weighs around 12 tonnes and is 15-metre-long. Designed to carry both conventional and nuclear payload of about 1000 kg.
• Can travel at a speed of 2.5 km/s and can destroy targets nearly 700 km away.
• Equipped with sophisticated navigation system which helps to navigate missile to hit the target with a high degree of accuracy and precision.
• The last trial of Agni-I, conducted on September 11, 2014 from the same base, was also successful.

Indigenously developed nuclear capable Prithvi-II surface-to-surface missile was successfully test-fired by the Indian Army.

About Prithvi-II Missile

• Prithvi-II is a tactical short-range ballistic missile (SRBM) developed by indigenously by Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO).
• It has been developed under Integrated Guided Missile Development Program (IGMDP) and currently deployed by India’s Strategic Forces Command (SFC).
• The surface-to-surface Prithvi-II missile is capable of carrying 500 kg to 1,000 kg of warheads. It has been designed to operate with both liquid and solid fuel twine engines and has strike range of 350 km.
• It has the ability to dodge enemy missiles and uses advanced inertial guidance system with manoeuvring trajectory to hit its target.
• The missile was inducted into Indian armed forces in 2003.
• The last user trial of Prithvi-II was successfully conducted on February 19, 2015 from the same test range in Odisha.

About Dhanush missile

• One of the five missiles indigenously developed by the DRDO under its strategic Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme (IGMDP).
• The surface-to-surface missile is a naval variant of Prithvi-II missile and can carry both conventional as well as a nuclear payload of 500 kg.
• The missile has a length of 8.53 meters and is 0.9 meter wide. It is single-stage, liquid propelled which can hit both land and sea-based targets upto strike range of 350 kms.
• The missile already has been inducted into the armed Services. Naval variant of the missile was first successfully tested in 2012.

• Test: It was conducted by Indian Army and Defence Research Development Organisation (DRDO). It was test fired from an Autonomous Mobile Launcher (AML) in full configuration and met all the mission objectives.

About Brahmos supersonic land attack missile

BRAHMOS missile system, the most lethal and potent weapon system for precision strike available with Indian Army.
The Army has already inducted three regiments of Brahmos in its arsenal. All are equipped with Block-III version of missile, which was tested on 8 and 9 May this year.
The land-attack version of Brahmos has been operationalised in the Army since 2007.
The missile, having a range of 290-km and a Mach 2.8 speed, is capable of being launched from land, sea, sub-sea and air against sea and land targets.
BrahMos is a joint venture between DRDO of India and NPOM of Russia.

BrahMos supersonic cruise missile was successfully test fired from on board of recently inducted guided missile destroyer INS Kochi off the western coast.

• This successful test provides much-needed teeth to INS Kochi which is one of the India’s most modern indigenous destroyers, making it another lethal platform of Indian Navy.
• BrahMos as the prime strike weapon of the destoroyer will ensure its invincibility in engaging long range targets in seas.

• 7,500-tonne indigenously developed warship and was inducted into Indian Navy on September 30, 2015.
• It has new design concepts for stealth, manoeuvrability and survivability.
• It can carry total 16 BrahMos missiles in two 8-cell vertical launch systems along with other modern weapons and sensors.

About BrahMos missile

• BrahMos supersonic cruise missile designed and developed by BrahMos Aerospace, a joint venture of India and Russia.
• Missile’s name has been derived from the names of two rivers, India’s Brahmaputra River and Russia’s Moskva River.
• It is capable of being launched from land, sea, sub-sea and air against sea and land targets.
• Features: It is capable of carrying a warhead of 300 kilogram and can be launched from ships, land and submarines.
• It has top supersonic speed of Mach 2.8. It can strike a target at maximum range of 290-km.
• It is two-stage missile, the first one being solid and the second one ramjet liquid propellant.