22.9.12

Agni III test fired



The 3,000-km range Agni-III missile was test fired successfully by the Strategic Forces Command (SFC) from the Wheeler Island, off the coast of Odisha on Friday. All mission objectives of the ballistic missile were achieved, according to Ravi Kumar Gupta, scientist ‘G’, and director of directorate of public interface of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO). It may be mentioned here that in the last five months, all the Agni class of missiles were tested successfully. Agni-I, Agni-II, Agni-III, Agni-IV and Agni-V with different ranges were successfully test fired.
According to sources, in the last 11 months, there were as many as 12 test launches of different missiles developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation, apart from the Agni class missiles.

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