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Monday, May 05, 2008

Agni-III to be tested for third time

Defence scientists are planning to conduct the third test of India's longest range and most powerful nuclear-capable missile Agni-III, next week.

The missile, which was to be tested in April-end, but the wildlife department of Orissa in a letter to the DRDO, had sought postponement of the test for another month in the wake of Olive Ridley nesting.

Sources at the defence base in Chandipur said, the "China-specific" surface- to-surface missile which has a strike range of about 3,500 km would be testfired from the Inner Wheeler Island off the Orissa coast between May 7 and 9.

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