India has again successfully test fired Nuclear Weapons Capable Agni I Missile which is designed for Surface to Surface Attacks at Chandipur Odisha. Agni I is indigenously dveloped in India.
Agni I missile, which can strike a target 700 km away and can carry a one tonne nuclear warhead, was tested by the armed forces from a facility on Wheeler Island near Dhamra in Bhadrak district, 170 km from here.
“It hit the target with hundred per cent accuracy. It was a perfect test,” director of the Integrated Test Range, M.V.K.V. Prasad, told IANS. “This was another user trial with a short range.”
Amongst those who witnessed the test were Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) chief V.K. Saraswat.
Agni I is an intermediate range ballistic missile. It uses solid propulsion booster and a liquid propulsion upper stage, derived from India’s first indigenously developed ballistic missile Prithvi.