Balasore (Odisha): India on Friday successfully test fired the new surface-to-air missile, developed jointly with Israel, with a strike range upto 70 km, from a defence base off Odisha coast, a day after two rounds of similar trials were conducted.

"The test was successful. With this, DRDO has created history by conducting three consecutive trials of the medium range missile successfully in two days," a DRDO official said. The test was conducted to validate various parameters and it met the mission requirements. The missile was test launched
successfully twice yesterday, he said.