India Successfully Test Fired a Ballistic Missile in Bay of Bengal

India on 26 January 2013 successfully test fired an underwater ballistic missile, K-15(code-named Bo5), with a strike range of around700 kilometres, from an underwater platform in Bay of Bengal. The medium range K-5 ballistic missile was test-fired from an underwater pontoon and all parameters of the test firing were met.

The major features of K-15 are as following:

• K-15 is the 10-metre tall Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missile(SLBM).

• India is only the fifth nation to have SLBM. The other four nations are Russia, China, France and USA.

• The process of integrating K-15 missile with INS Arihant, the indigenously built nuclear submarine will start now.

• India is also in the process of developing K-4 missile with a range of 3000 km.