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India's longest-range nuclear capable missile, Agni-5, test-fired: All you need to know
Monday, December 26, 2016 IST
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India's longest-range nuclear capable missile, Agni-5, test-fired: All you need to know

Balasore: India on Monday tried its indigenously created intercontinental surface-to-surface nuclear capable ballistic missile 'Agni-V' from the Wheeler Island off Odisha drift.

According to The Times of India, Agni-V is fit for achieving the northern parts of China. The rocket's prior forms can reach anyplace in Pakistan and parts of western China.

The three phase, strong charge rocket was test-terminated from a portable launcher from the dispatch complex-4 of the Integrated Test Range (ITR).

It was the fourth formative and second canisterised trial of the long-go rocket. While the primary test was led on April 19, 2012, the second test was done on September 15, 2013, and the third on January 31, 2015, from a similar base.

The indigenously created surface-to-surface rocket, Agni-5, is fit for striking an objective more than 5,000 km. It is around 17-meter long, 2-meter wide and has a dispatch weight of around 50 tons. The rocket can convey an atomic warhead of more than one ton.

Not at all like different rockets of Agni arrangement, the most recent one 'Agni-5' is the most exceptional having some new advancements joined with it as far as route and direction, warhead and motor.

A considerable measure of new innovations grew indigenously were effectively tried in the principal Agni-5 trial. The excess route frameworks, high precision Ring Laser Gyro based Inertial Navigation System (RINS) and the most advanced and exact Micro Navigation System (MINS) had guaranteed the Missile achieve the objective point inside few meters of exactness.

The fast locally available PC and blame tolerant programming alongside vigorous and solid transport guided the rocket perfectly, an authority said.

India has at present in its ordnance of Agni arrangement, Agni-1 with 700 km go, Agni-2 with 2,000 km go, Agni-3 and Agni-4 with 2,500 km to more than 3,500 km go. After somewhere in the range of couple of more trials, Agni-5 will be accepted into the administrations, sources said.

 
 

 
 

 
 

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Serving political interests in another person's illness is the lowest form of human value. A 70+ y old lady has cancer.

November 28, 2016 05:00 IST
Shibu Chandran
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Serving political interests in another person's illness is the lowest form of human value. A 70+ y old lady has cancer.

November 28, 2016 05:00 IST
Shibu Chandran
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November 28, 2016 05:00 IST


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