NEW DELHI, Sept. 14 – India successfully test fired the Astra air-to-air missile Sunday from a military base in eastern Orissa state for the second time in two days, the Indo-Asian News Service reported.

Astra, India’s indigenously developed air-to-air missile, was successfully test fired from the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur off the Orissa coast at Sunday noon, defense sources said.

The anti-aircraft missile, capable of ducking radar eyes and attacking enemy targets up to 110 km, is a futuristic missile and will hit the target at super-sonic speeds, scientists said.

It is 3.6 meters long, 7 inches in diameter and has launch weight of about 154 kg. It is capable of carrying 15 kg war head, the sources said.

The missile is proposed to be integrated with combat fighter aircraft Sukhoi-30 next year and might be integrated with other fighter jets (Mirage 2000 and MiG 29) once all tests are done to verify its accuracy in destroying targets, the report said.

The Hyderabad-based Defense Research and Development Laboratory(DRDL) took nearly five years to develop the missile under the integrated guided missile development program of the Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO).