[Cyber Liberty]

Once we finish up in Afghanistan, there really is nothing stopping us from giving the Pakies the back of our hand, good and hard.

We need to choose sides here, and India has a golden opportunity.

[ops33]

Are their land bases missiles in silos or are they mobile?

[caltaxed]

Launching a solid fuel missile from a moving submarine is a difficult thing to do.

Well done.

[brityank]

Thanks for the thread and info.

NDTV Video of Launch and Live Interview

The missile has been designed and perfected by AK Chakrabarty, the Director of the Defence Research and Development Laboratory, Hyderabad, which is the mother facility for India's Integrated Missile Development Programme. This launch was particularly poignant for Mr Chakrabarty as he has been involved with this project since its very inception, and now within a few hours of the last developmental launch, he is retiring after many decades of glorious service to the nation.

[Oztrich Boy]

OK this report seems a bit inaccurate

Other sources are reporting this as a K-15 Sagarika test (the 12th so far since Feb 2008), which makes sense in timescale and reported range.

The K-5 is India's Trident equivilent with a 10,000 km range In-service date probably after 2020. No way they've got a test vehicle ready now.

Anyway the K-4 (4000-5000km) Poseidon equivilent is in the pipeline before the K-5.

But with all K-15 launches reportedly successful, it does seem India will have a Stage 1 Pakistan targeted SLBM from when the Arihant class submarine enter service.

Late Google From India Today: I wuz right, it seems this was the final K-15 test