The Indian Army has successfully test fired the indigenously developed, nuclear-capable, short-range ballistic missile (SRBM) Agni-1 from the integrated test range (ITR) at Wheeler Island off the Orissa coast.
ITR director SP Dash said the test fire of the Agni-I missile met all parameters, according to Times Of India.
During the test launch, the surface-to-surface, single-stage missile was launched from a rail mobile launcher.
A defence official from the launch site said that after piercing the sky, the missile re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere and its dummy warhead impacted in the waters of the Bay of Bengal.
The guidance and re-entry system worked well, the official added.
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The launch operation was carried out by the Strategic Force Command of the Indian Army with the necessary logistic support being provided by the Defence Research Development Organisation at ITR.
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By GlobalDataThe 15m-long Agni-1 weighs 12t and has a payload capacity of up to 1t, and has already been inducted into the Indian Army.