India tests medium-range missile

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India on Friday tested a new version of its nuclear-capable Prithvi missile, which has an enhanced range that could easily reach the capital of Pakistan, Press Trust of India reported.

The new version of the medium-range missile can reach up to 125 miles. The routine test was done at the Integrated Test Range in Chandipur, in the eastern state of Orissa.

The new version has been developed for the Indian Air Force and was fired from a mobile launcher, the news agency reported.

It wasn't immediately clear if Pakistan, India's neighbor and longtime rival, had been informed of the test.

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1. Minimum range is all that India needs to...

...hit Pakistan with a moderate sized nuclear device. Colin Powell was in Pakistan yesterday establishing the target coordinates, hopefully for Osama's spider-hole. Now, if there happens to be collateral damage (women, children and other non-combatant human beings), well that can't be helped. Fascism is the same, no matter where it resides be it India, Latin America, Europe, far east, middle east, America. The end result is always the same, lose of civil liberties, militarism, two social classes upper and lower, order, dictatorship, war, victims, it doesn't change.