Balasore (Odisha): India today successfully test-fired its indigenously developed surface-to-air 'Akash' missile from a test range in Odisha as part of user trial by the Air Force.

"The sophisticated Akash missile was test-fired from launch complex-3 of the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur at about 3.18 pm," defence sources said. Describing the trial of the missile "fully successful", ITR director M V K V Prasad told PTI that it hit a para barrel target.