NE NEWS SERVICE
NEW DELHI, JUNE 1
A successful training launch of a Medium-Range Ballistic Missile, Agni-1 was carried out by the Strategic Forces Command from APJ Abdul Kalam Island, Odisha on Thursday. The missile is a proven system, capable of striking targets with a very high degree of precision. The user training launch successfully validated all operational and technical parameters of the missile.
- In order to verify the system’s overall performance and the readiness of ballistic missile units, user trials include the test flight of a randomly chosen unit from the current inventory of deployed missiles.
The missile is a tried and tested system with a high degree of precision for strategically hitting targets.
In order to verify the system’s overall performance and the readiness of ballistic missile units, user trials include the test flight of a randomly chosen unit from the current inventory of deployed missiles.
“All operational and technical features of this missile were successful,” a press release from PIB stated.
The PIB’s Odisha handle on Twitter stated, “Successful training launch of a Medium-Range Ballistic Missile, Agni-1 was carried out by the Strategic Forces Command from APJ Abdul Kalam Island, #Odisha The missile is a proven system, capable of striking targets with a very high degree of precision.”
In the Agni family of Indian nuclear-capable missiles, the Agni-I is the oldest and shortest-range missile. The previously deployed medium-range ballistic missile Agni-II, the medium-range ballistic missile Agni-III, the intermediate-range ballistic missiles Agni-III and Agni-IV, and the near-intercontinental range Agni-V succeed it.
The range of the AGNI-I ballistic missile is 700 kms. It was India’s first nuclear-capable device to be tested in the late 1980s, over a decade before the country conducted its first armed nuclear tests in 1998.
However, the Agni-I’s development was finished after that of the Agni-II, which offered India a more urgent capability in the wake of the 1999 Kargil War with Pakistan. The Agni-I was created with a range explicitly to put Pakistani targets at danger.
