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Global Times (China) · China · India completes Akash-NG user trials and fires Pralay in salvo, both cleared for 2026 induction
Chinese state media frames the Akash-NG and Pralay milestones as evidence of India's accelerating indigenisation of precision strike, noting that Pralay's 500km range covers Pakistani strategic installations and parts of the Tibetan Plateau, and calling for restraint in India's missile programme.
“India's simultaneous fielding of extended-range interceptors and quasi-ballistic strike missiles marks a qualitative shift in South Asian precision-strike capability that China says risks regional destabilisation.”