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India test-fires ICBM Agni-V

India test-fires ICBM Agni-V

| @indiablooms | 18 Jan 2018, 02:57 pm

New Delhi,Jan 18 (IBNS) :India, on Thursday morning successfully test-fired its most lethal inter-continental ballistic missile, Agini-v, reports said. 

The missile with a range of more than 5000 kms was  was test-fired from the Abdul Kalam Island defence test facility off the coast of the eastern Indian state Odisha.

Previously, the missile had been test-fired on December 26, 2016, from a mobile launcher, which was then described as the fourth and developmental, second canisterised trial and final experimental test of the three-stage missile.

The first two flights of Agni-V in April 2012 and September 2013 were in open configuration, the third and fourth tests in January 2015 and December 2016 saw it being fired from a hermetically sealed canister mounted on a Tatra launcher truck and had already proved the missile.

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