| India to test-fire Agni V missile soon: official |
| Last Updated(Beijing Time):2012-03-01 13:16 |
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India will test-fire the Agni V long-range surface-to-surface missile for the first time in the last week of March or the first week of April from the Wheeler Island off the coast of Odisha in eastern India, The Hindu daily reported on Wednesday.
V.K. Saraswat, Scientific Adviser to the Prime Minister and Head of the Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO), told the newspaper the DRDO would conduct more test flights of the missile over the next one year.
Agni V will have a range of 5,000 km and is capable of carrying a one-ton nuclear warhead.
Weighing 50 tons, the 17.2-meter-long missile with a diameter of two meters, will have three stages all fired by solid fuel. |
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