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Monday, July 25, 2011

Preparations apace for Agni V launch

Agni IIIPreparations for the launch of Agni-V in December 2011 are gathering speed, with all the three stages of the missile having been successfully tested at Jagdalpur in Chhattisgarh's Bastar district.

Agni-V will be India's most powerful missile, capable of targeting places as far as 5,000 km away with a one-tonne nuclear warhead, giving teeth to the country's nuclear deterrence programme.

It will be the missile with the longest range in India's arsenal: in comparison, Agni-III has a range of 3,500 km.

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