Bhubaneswar, May 07: In a move that is likely to bridge the strategic military imbalance with China, India on Wednesday successfully test-fired indigenously developed Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile (IRBM) Agni III. The potent surface-to-surface nuke capable missile has a strike range of over 35000 km with the capability to hit high value targets. With today’s launch Chinese cities like Beijing and Shanghai have also come within striking distance.Agni III was launched from a mobile launcher from the launch complex (LC-4) of the Integrated Test Range (ITR) located on Wheeler Island off Orissa coast at about 0956 hours.
The 16 metre-long and 1.8-metre wide missile roared into the sky in a vertically slanted position leaving behind a thick column of orange and white smoke and, within seconds, became invisible to the naked eye, an eyewitness said.
Agni-III missile is fitted with on-board computer for its guidance system. A battery of sophisticated radars, electro-optic tracking systems, telemetric data centres in the mainland apart from two naval war ships anchored near the impact point, were engaged to monitor the entire trajectory in today`s test launch.
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