India today test-fired its medium-range nuclear-capable Agni-II missile from an island off the Odisha coast as part of a user trial but the test is understood to have failed to meet the desired parameters.

The trial of the surface-to-surface missile was conducted from a mobile launcher at the Integrated Test Range on Abdul Kalam Island at around 10.25 am, reports reaching here said.

The test, however, is believed to have failed to meet the desired parameters. Agni-II, which has a strike range of over 2,000 km, has already been inducted into the services and today's test from Launch Complex-4 of the ITR was carried out by the Strategic Forces Command as part of a training exercise.

Logistic support for it was provided by the Defence Research and Development Organisation, they said.

The two-stage missile equipped with advanced high-accuracy navigation system was propelled by solid rocket propellant system, the sources said.

Agni-II, which has a length of 20 metres, weighs 17 tonnes and can carry a payload of 1000 kg over a distance of 2,000 km.

It is a part of the Agni series of missiles developed by the DRDO which includes Agni-I (700-km range), Agni-III (3,000 km), Agni-IV (4,000 km) and Agni-V (more than 5,000 km). The last user trial of Agni-II conducted on November 9, 2014, from the same base was a success.  -- PTI