India test fires Agni-2 with range more than 2000 Km.
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Coming soon! Diwali has just begun!
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That's next I guess. Expect Agni4 to join party too after Agni5 test.
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What a news!!! Make canister one for Agni series.
ISRO and DRDO have given good lot of 'fodder' to 'loose cannons' like us this year .
Virtually every month of this year has been 'happening' one ...
feels nice to read the news .
" A missile a month keeps enemy away "
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Agni-3, Agni-4 & Agni-5 next
DRDO is just doing One two ka Four , Five !!!
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Nuclear weapons capable, Agni-II ballistic missile was successfully test-fired for its full strike range of 2,000 km from the Wheeler Island off the Odisha Coast on Sunday.
The surface-to-surface missile was launched from a mobile launcher by the the personnel of Strategic Forces Command around 9. 40 am. After a reaching an altitude about 600 km, the missile climbed down and splashed into the waters of Bay of Bengal near its pre-designated impact point. in the Bay of Bengal with a two-digit accuracy, according to sources.
A battery of sophisticated radars, electro-optical tracking systems and telemetry stations along the East Coast tracked the trajectory and monitored various parameters of the missile from the launch till terminal phase during the 15-minute flight. Two down range ships also recorded the final event.
The two-stage, 20-metre tall missile, which can carry a payload of one tonne, has already been inducted.
The entire exercise was carried out by the SFC personnel as part of regular user training under the supervision of missile scientists from Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), which designed and developed the weapon system.
V. G.Sekaran, Director-General DRDO, (Missiles and Strategic Systems), M V K V Prasad, Director of Integrated Test Range, Lakshminarayana, Project Director, senior DRDO scientists and Army officials others were present.
Agni-II ballistic missile succesfully test-fired - The Hindu
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Nuclear weapons capable, Agni-II ballistic missile was successfully test-fired for its full strike range of 2,000 km from the Wheeler Island off the Odisha Coast on Sunday.
The surface-to-surface missile was launched from a mobile launcher by the the personnel of Strategic Forces Command around 9. 40 am. After a reaching an altitude about 600 km, the missile climbed down and splashed into the waters of Bay of Bengal near its pre-designated impact point. in the Bay of Bengal with a two-digit accuracy, according to sources.
A battery of sophisticated radars, electro-optical tracking systems and telemetry stations along the East Coast tracked the trajectory and monitored various parameters of the missile from the launch till terminal phase during the 15-minute flight.Two down range ships also recorded the final event.
The two-stage, 20-metre tall missile, which can carry a payload of one tonne, has already been inducted.
The entire exercise was carried out by the SFC personnel as part of regular user training under the supervision of missile scientists from Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), which designed and developed the weapon system.
V. G.Sekaran, Director-General DRDO, (Missiles and Strategic Systems), M V K V Prasad, Director of Integrated Test Range, Lakshminarayana, Project Director, senior DRDO scientists and Army officials others were present.
Agni-II ballistic missile succesfully test-fired - The Hindu
The surface-to-surface missile was launched from a mobile launcher by the the personnel of Strategic Forces Command around 9. 40 am. After a reaching an altitude about 600 km, the missile climbed down and splashed into the waters of Bay of Bengal near its pre-designated impact point. in the Bay of Bengal with a two-digit accuracy, according to sources.
A battery of sophisticated radars, electro-optical tracking systems and telemetry stations along the East Coast tracked the trajectory and monitored various parameters of the missile from the launch till terminal phase during the 15-minute flight.Two down range ships also recorded the final event.
The two-stage, 20-metre tall missile, which can carry a payload of one tonne, has already been inducted.
The entire exercise was carried out by the SFC personnel as part of regular user training under the supervision of missile scientists from Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), which designed and developed the weapon system.
V. G.Sekaran, Director-General DRDO, (Missiles and Strategic Systems), M V K V Prasad, Director of Integrated Test Range, Lakshminarayana, Project Director, senior DRDO scientists and Army officials others were present.
Agni-II ballistic missile succesfully test-fired - The Hindu
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