DHAKA: India on Monday successfully test-fired its nuclear-capable ‘Agni-III’ ballistic missile with a strike range of more than 3,000 km, as part of a user trial by the Army from Wheeler Island off Odisha coast.

‘The test-fire conducted by Strategic Force Command (SFC) of the Army was totally successful. Data analyses showed the trial met all parametres,’ DRDO Spokesman Ravi Kumar Gupta said, reports Hindustan Times.

The indigenously developed surface-to-surface missile was flight-tested from a mobile launcher at launch complex-4 of the Integrated Test Range at about 1655 hrs, defence sources said.

The entire launch operation of the missile, having a strike range of more than 3,000 km, was carried out by SFC with logistic support by Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO).

‘It was the second user trial in the Agni-III series carried out to establish the ‘repeatability’ of the missile’s performance,’ a DRDO official said.

BDST: 2034 HRS, DEC 23, 2013
Edited by Robab Rosan, Current Affairs Editor