Successful launching of India’s Agni-I missile
BHUBANESWAR: As informed by a defence official, India successfully fired its nuclear capable surface-to-surface Agni-I missile from a test range in Orissa on Thursday.
It is a missile, which can strike the targets of 700 km away. It was tested as part of user-trials from a facility on Wheeler Island in Bhadrak district, about 200 km from here, test range director S.P. Dash told IANS.
He said. “It was a text book….successful launch. It was tested by the army,”
Agni-I has already been inducted into the armed forces. It is 15 metres tall and weighs 12 tonnes. It can carry a one tonne nuclear payload. Agni-I is an intermediate range ballistic missile. It uses a solid propulsion booster and a liquid propulsion upper stage and is derived from the Prithvi surface-to-surface battlefield missile.
It is developed under India’s Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme , the missile was first tested in May 1989. The last test of the missile was successfully conducted on 28th of March from the same defence base.
