Akash, India's surface-to-air missile, was test-fired from a mobile launcher at the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur-on-sea, near Balasore, Orissa on Monday. It showed consistency in full flight, its 39 th, travelled its entire range of 25 km and hit the pilotless target aircraft "Lakshya."Prahlada, Director, Defence Research and Development Laboratory, Hyderabad (the nodal agency which designed the Akash), said this was the third consecutive flight in which the missile showed total consistency.The Army and the Air Force, who would be using Akash, wanted it to demonstrate consistency during the entire flight and travel to the far-boundary (full range), which it did.