Agni IV

India test-fired its second-most ambitious nuclear missile in the making, the new-generation Agni-IV with a strike range of 4,000 km, and promptly declared it was ready for induction. The over 5,000 km Agni-V missile, in turn, will be tested for the third time later this year. Both the missiles are geared towards providing the country with some much needed credible strategic deterrence against China, which can target any Indian city with its intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) like the 11,200 km range Dong Feng-31A.
DRDO chief Avinash Chander said the two stage Agni-IV missile was tested from the Wheeler Island off the Odisha coast in its “actual weapon configuration’’, in which it will be delivered to the Strategic Forces Command (SFC). The almost one-tonne warhead was not nuclear.