Indian defense officials say their most powerful and long-range ballistic missile yet, the Agni-III, is finally ready to be test-fired.
Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) chief M. Natarajan told reporters last week that the 2,100-mile range missile capable of targeting more of China than any previous Indian strategic weapon was ready for testing, the Indo-Asian News Service reported Friday.
'We have done all the technical tasks for a project of this nature,' Natarajan said Friday at the 2006 Defexno arms fair in New Delhi. 'But when it will be fired, how it will be fired, and where it will be fired is a decision that has to be taken at a higher level,' he said.
Two shorter-range versions of the indigenously developed Agni with ranges of 420 miles and 1,500 miles have already entered service with the Indian armed forces. But the far more ambitious Agni-III is designed to carry a one-ton conventional or nuclear warhead. Also, it is powered by solid fuels that are essential for rapid deployment and firing -- a crucial capability in India`s ever more complex strategic nuclear arms race with neighboring Pakistan.
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