Agni 5, India's Longest Range Ballistic Missile, Successfully Test-Fired

First canister-based nuclear-capable ballistic missile Agni-5 test-fired

BALASORE/ODISHA: Marking another milestone in the country's deterrence capability, India today successfully carried out the maiden canister-based trial of its most potent missile Agni-V, which has a strike range of over 5000 kms and can carry a nuclear warhead of over one tonne. 

The missile was launched from a canister mounted on a road-mobile launcher at Wheeler's Island off Odisha coast. The three-stage, solid propellant "missile was test-fired from a mobile launcher from the launch complex-4 of the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at about 8.06 hours," ITR Director M V K V Prasad told PTI.

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