Agni-II successfully test fired
Balasore, Aug 9 : Sharpening its missile teeth, India today successfully test-fired its medium range nuclear capable Agni-II missile with a strike range of 2000 km as part of a user trial by the Army from the Wheeler Island off Odisha coast. “The trial of the surface-to-surface missile was conducted from a mobile launcher from the Launch Complex-4 of Integrated Test Range at around 0848 hours,” defence sources said.Describing the launch as a complete success, ITR Director MVKV Prasad said, “All mission parameters were met during the trial of the indigenously developed missile.”Agni-II Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile has already been inducted into the services and today's test was carried out by the Strategic Forces Command of the Army with logistic support provided by the Defence Research and Development Organisation “The 2000 km range versatile missile, already inducted and part of countries arsenal for strategic deterrence, was launched as a training exercise by the armed forces,” a DRDO scientist said.The two-stage missile equipped with advanced high accuracy navigation system, guided by state-of-the-art command & control system was propelled by solid rocket propellant system, he said The entire trajectory of the trial was tracked by a battery of sophisticated radars, telemetry observation stations, electro-optic instruments and naval ships located near the impact point in the down range area of the sea.The 20-metre long Agni-II is a two-stage, solid-propelled ballistic missile.It has a launch weight of 17 tonnes and can carry a payload of 1000 kg over a distance of 2000 KM.
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