BALASORE: India is set to
join an elite club of nations
possessing the Inter-Continental
Ballistic Missile
(ICBM) as nuclear capable
Agni-V missile is due to is
launched from the Wheeler
Island off the Orissa Coast
on Wednesday.
Designed and developed
by the Defence Research
and Development Organisation
(DRDO), the threestage
missile has a strike
range of 5,000 km.
The indigenously developed
nuclear capable ‘Agni-
V’ ballistic missile is scheduled
to be launched from a
mobile launcher.
Once validated and inducted
into the armed forces
after more tests in future,
Agni-V will be India’s longest-
range missile which can
carry a nuclear warhead.
Range preparation for the
maiden test of Agni-V ballistic
missile has been completed
and full precaution
is being taken to ensure its
fl awless launch.
Ahead of its launch, a
senior DRDO scientist
said, “The three stage solid
fuelled missile would be put
into test for the fi rst time
with some advance and indigenous
technology with
the support of a canisterised
mobile launcher.”
The surface-to-surface
missile Agni-V which can
carry a pay-load of 1 tonne
is 17 m long, 2 m wide and
weighs 50 tonnes.
Scientists associated with
Agni-V project are quite optimistic
about its performances,
as the fi rst trial of Agni-
IV on November 15 last
year was highly satisfactory
in terms of its ‘control and
guidance’ system.
The 5000 km range Agni-
V missile would add another
feather to such class of missiles
that India possesses
at present. The Agni-I has
700 km, Agni-2 (2,000 km),
Agni-III and IV (3,000 plus
km) range.
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