Overview
- The user evaluation trial took place around 10:30 am off the Odisha coast near the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur.
- Both missiles met all flight objectives, with trajectories tracked by range sensors and terminal events verified by shipborne telemetry.
- The salvo from a single launcher demonstrates rapid‑fire capability, an operational step beyond earlier multi‑launcher firings.
- Pralay is an indigenously developed solid‑propellant quasi‑ballistic system with a 150–500 km range and a 500–1,000 kg conventional payload.
- Research Centre Imarat led development with multiple DRDO labs, systems were integrated by Bharat Dynamics and Bharat Electronics, and leaders including Rajnath Singh and DRDO chief Samir V. Kamat affirmed reliability and near‑term induction.