Bhubaneswar: India has successfully test fires of nuclear-capable surface-to-surface Agni-I missile fram a military base in Odisha on Thursday.
Notify that Agni is an intermediate range ballistic missile. It uses solid propulsion booster and a liquid propulsion upper stage which had been derived from India’s first indigenously developed ballistic missile Prithvi.
An official said that this missile can strike a target 700 km away and can carry a one-tonne nuclear warhead. It was tested by the armed forces as part of user trial from a facility on Wheeler Island near Dhamra in Bhadrak district, 170 km from state capital Bhubaneswar.
MVKV Prasad, the director of the test range said, “It was a perfect launch.”
Bureau Report
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