The following day, April 15, the Indian Army’s Strategic Forces Command successfully tested the nuclear-capable Agni-III surface-to-surface missile from Wheeler Island, off of the Odisha coast.
It has long been suspected that India would at some point seek to modify the Agni-V and the Agni-III— an intermediate range ballistic missile which has the same build as the Agni-V— with MIRVs.
India has the Agni family of missiles, with its Agni II MRBM and Agni III IRBM already deployed. India has been conducting ...
The range of Agni Prime, Agni-II, Agni-III and Agni-IV is 1500 km, 2000 km, 3500 km and 4000 km respectively. Defence sources said there were considerable improvements in its re-entry technology ...
If the payload is reduced, it can even reach distances of upto 8000 km. It is an advancement to the Agni-III and was first test fired in 2012. Since then, it has been tested five more times with ...
On the other hand, the country has four kinds of land-based nuclear missiles — Prithvi I, Agni I, Agni II, Agni III — which constitute nearly 60 warheads. Agni II, the medium-range ballistic ...