The development comes amid lingering border row with China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
India on Thursday successfully test-fired nuclear-capable ballistic missile Agni-V <\/a>that can strike targets at ranges up to 5,000 km, marking a significant boost to the country’s strategic deterrence, people familiar with the development said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The test-firing of the missile from the APJ Abdul Kalam Island off Odisha coast came amid India’s lingering border row with China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Agni-V project is aimed at boosting India’s nuclear deterrence against China which is known to have missiles like Dongfeng-41 having ranges between 12,000-15,000 km.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Agni-V can bring almost the entire Asia including the northernmost part of China as well as some regions in Europe under its striking range.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Agni 1 to 4 missiles have ranges from 700 km to 3,500 km and they have already been deployed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Agni-V missile has been successfully test-fired, two people familiar with the matter said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There is no official word on the night trials of the missile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The people cited above said the test validated a number of critical aspects of the weapon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n India carried out a similar test of the missile in October last year as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The successful test-firing of the missile paves way for its induction into the Strategic Forces Command that takes care of India’s strategic assets, the people cited above said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The missile has a very high degree of accuracy to hit targets. It has a height of 17 metres and it is capable of carrying a 1.5-tonne warhead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In June, India successfully carried out a night launch of the nuclear-capable Agni-4 ballistic missile, in a boost to India’s military capabilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Following the test, the Defence Ministry had said that it reaffirmed India’s policy of having a ‘credible minimum deterrence capability.” India has been steadily enhancing its overall military might in the last couple of years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It has carried out successful tests of a number of missiles during the period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In May, the extended range version of the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile was test-fired from a Sukhoi fighter jet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It was the first launch of the extended range version of the BrahMos missile from a Su-30MKI aircraft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n An anti-ship version of the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile was successfully test-fired jointly by the Indian Navy and the Andaman and Nicobar Command in April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n thehindu.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The development comes amid lingering border row with China. India on Thursday successfully test-fired nuclear-capable ballistic missile Agni-V that can strike targets at ranges up to 5,000 km, marking a significant boost to the country’s strategic deterrence, people familiar with the development said. The test-firing of the missile from the APJ Abdul Kalam Island off Odisha coast … Continue reading India test-fires Agni-V ballistic missile having range of 5,000 km<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4,206,20,11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amazing-feats","category-business-economy","category-defence-services-airlandsea","category-records-india-national","category-science-technology","category-transport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17486"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17491,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17486\/revisions\/17491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}