The flight test of the surface-to-surface missile was carried out barely a fortnight after two back-to-back trials of the Prithvi-2 were conducted successfully at night from the same base on Nov 20
A defence official said this was the first time that the sophisticated missile was testfired at night
It was confirmed that the air force detected the missile that was shot from Saada city in Yemen towards Saudi Arabia
The only system expressly designed to shoot down ICBMs is the US Ground-based Midcourse Defence