New Delhi, May 14: India`s prestigious intermediate-range ballistic missile Agni-III capable of hitting targets more than 4000 kilometres away is technically ready for launch, according to the country`s top defence scientist M Natarajan.
"We (DRDO) are technically ready for the test-firing of the missile," Natarajan, scientific advisor to the defence minister, told a function at which Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was the chief guest. "We are awaiting a nod from the government," he said.
The nuclear capable surface-based Agni-III with solid and liquid propellant has never been fired and tests have repeatedly been put off since November 2004.
While some say the missile has a range of more than 3000 km, others put its reach between 4000 to 6000 km. It can be deployed through rail or road mobile launch vehicles and has an inertial guidance system with improved optical or radar terminal phase co-relation capability.
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