5,000-km range Agni-5 to be test fired in Feb

Addressing a press conference here,Saraswat talked about India’s missiles programme and developing effective deterrence capability against adversaries.

Yesterday,DRDO had successful test fired nuclear capable Agni-4 missile from a test range in Wheeler Island off Odisha coast.

“Agni-4 belongs to DRDO’s flagship programme to make the country self-reliant in missile technology. We have now graduated to a higher level of missile technology with more capable versions of the earlier missiles such as Agni-1 and Agni-2,” he said.

Talking about Agni-4’s capabilities,he said,”Earlier missiles were based on rail mobile launchers which needed an exhaustive infrastructure support. But Agni-4 is based on road mobile launchers. It gives a much higher level of flexibility and is a maintenance free system. It is better in terms of accuracy and performance as well.”

This missile is better than previous ones in various parameters such as terminal accuracy,payload delivery capability and also in terms of maintenance and flexible operational deployment,he said.