India on Wednesday successfully test-fired the land version of the BrahMos cruise missile from a test range in Orissa's Balasore district in east India, Indian defense sources said.

According to Indo-Asian News Service, the missile, which is jointly developed by India and Russia and takes its name from the Brahmaputra and Moskva rivers, has a range of nearly 300 km and carries a conventional warhead of 300 kg.

It can achieve speeds of up to 2.8 Mach or nearly three times the speed of sound. It was tested at 11.02 a.m. from a mobile launcher from the integrated test range (ITR) at Chandipur, 230 km from the state capital Bhubaneswar.

The test was successful and fulfilled all the mission objectives, the sources said.

Source: Xinhua