Launched from a ship, the missile met mission objectives in a flawless performance. India successfully test-fired the nuclear-capable Dhanush ballistic missile for its full range of 350 km from a naval ship off the coast of Odisha on Friday. This follows the successful flight-testing of the land-based Prithvi-II ballistic missile for a similar range on Thursday. The surface-to-surface Dhanush, a naval variant of Prithvi-II, was fired by personnel of the Strategic Forces Command (SFC) at 11.25 a.m. as part of regular training. The missile rose from the ship and splashed down near the pre-designated target in the Bay of Bengal with an accuracy of less than 20 metres. All the mission objectives were met in a flawless performance, official sources said. All the radars, telemetry stations and electro-optical systems tracked and evaluated the performance in real time. The single-stage, liquid-propelled Dhanush, already inducted into the Army, is one of the five missiles developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation under the Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme.