12.9.14

Agni-1 test-fired successfully


Agni-1 missile, with a strike range of 700 km, was successfully test-fired from Wheeler's Island off the Odisha coast on Thursday .The Strategic Forces Command (SFC) conducted the trial at 11.11 am as a part of its periodic training activity to further consolidate operational readiness, Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) sources said. The trajectory of the trial was tracked by a battery of sophisticated radars, telemetry observation stations. “The missile covered 650 km in nine minutes and met all parameters. It was a Mark-02 version of the missile,“ said a scientist of the Integrated TesRange (ITR).

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