Bhubaneswar: A day after the successful test-firing of nuclear capable surface-to-surface Prithvi-II missile, India on Friday conducted user trial of Agni-I ballistic missile from Dr Abdul Kalam Island off Odisha coast.
The nuclear capable missile was fired from Launch Pad 4 at 10.02 am by the Strategic Forces Command (SFC) of Indian Army. According to DRDO, the surface-to-surface missile can destroy targets nearly 700 km away.
The missile is only 15 meters and powered by solid and liquid propellants at a speed of 2.5 km per seconds. It weighs around 12 tonnes and can carry both conventional and nuclear payload of about 1,000 kg. Agni-I was first launched on January 25, 2002, and can be fired from road and rail mobile launchers.
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