Nuclear-capable Agni-I successfully test-fired

India successfully test-fired the nuclear-capable Agni-I,the surface-to-surface,single stage missile.

India successfully test-fired the nuclear-capable Agni-I,the surface-to-surface,single stage missile from Wheeler Island on Bay of Bengal with a high degree of accuracy.

The salvo-mode test-firing was done by personnel of the Strategic Forces Command as part of a user-training exercise at 1.05 pm from LC-4 of Wheeler Island,about 70 km across the sea Chandipur-on-sea in Balasore district of Orissa.

The missile which has a range of 700 km,covered a distance of 633 km,said a senior official of Integrated Test Range. Agni-I is designed to bridge the gap between indigenously built short-range Prithvi,already deployed in the Army,and medium range Agni-II,that has a range of more than 2,000 km.

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Defence Research Development Organisation and operational strategic units of army and naval forces jointly conducted today’s operation.

On Saturday,the Strategic Forces Command had successfully tested nuclear-capable,ship-based Dhanush and surface-to-surface Prithvi-II in quick succession from INS Subhadra and ITR,Chandipur respectively. Each missile achieved its full range (Dhanush 350 km and Prithvi-II 290 km). The back-to-back tests are being done by the three forces to test the synergy between them in using these missile.

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