Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), the country's premier military research organisation has successfully acquired the technology to launch missiles from the ocean depths, becoming the world's fifth country to do so.
A.K Chakrabarti, under whose leadership a team of 86 scientists achieved the success under this project is called K-15. State-of-the-art missile system has the capability of being launched from sub-surface (underwater) environment.
The missile named Sagarika has been test fired successfully on Feb 26, 2008 this year and last year too from a submerged pontoon. The missile has a range of 700 km. Powered by a turbojet, it can carry a 500-kg payload. It is 8.5 metres long and about a metre in diameter.
With this, India has become capable of launching missiles from air, land, ships and submarines and joins an elite group that includes the US, Russia, France and China.
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