The Strategic Forces Command (SFC) of the Army successfully fired an
Agni-I missile from the Wheeler Island, off Odisha on Thursday) to test
the Command’s readiness to launch ballistic missiles carrying nuclear
warheads. The Agni-I rose from a road-mobile launcher, a specially
designed truck, at 9.30 a.m. and covered its targeted range in 600
seconds of flight. The missile accurately reached its targeted area in
the Bay of Bengal.
The Agni-I, indigenously developed by the Defence Research and
Development Organisation (DRDO), is already in the Army’s arsenal.This was the fifth success in a row when a series of missiles were
launched from September from the Wheeler Island. The flights included
Shourya, Prithvi-II and Agni-II missiles in the last week of September
and Agni-IV on November 15. The DRDO developed all these missiles.
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