Balasore (Odisha): Adding teeth to its nuclear deterrence, India on Tuesday successfully test-fired an advanced variant of nuclear-capable Agni-II ballistic missile with a strike range of 3,000 km from an island off Odisha coast. "The surface-to-surface intermediate range missile was test-fired from a mobile launcher" at 0900 hours from the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Wheeler Island, about 100 km from Balasore, defence sources said. Christened "Agni-II Prime", the new...
10:22 AM, Nov 15, 2011
Balasore: India's nuclear-capable, surface-to-surface Agni-II ballistic missile, with a strike range of 2000 kms, was on Friday test-fired as part of user trial by the Army from the Wheeler Island off Orissa coast. The indigenously developed missile was fired by personnel of the Strategic Forces Command (SFC) of the army from Launch Complex-IV of the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at about 0930 hours, defence sources said. Agni-II, developed as one...
10:03 AM, Sep 30, 2011
The 2,000 km range missile will be able to hit targets in the Indian Ocean, the Arabian Sea and the South China Sea. ...
01:50 AM, May 18, 2010
Surface-to-surface missile was tested from a rail mobile launcher near Dhamara. ...
12:19 PM, Feb 07, 2010
The aim of the test was to give the Army confidence to fire the missile on its own. ...
11:45 AM, May 19, 2009
The inter-mediate range missile can carry nuclear warheads and reach targets across much of Asia. ...
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