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Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Agni-V missile to be test-fired on January 31

Agni-V ICBMIndia's strategic missile, Agni-V, will be test-fired from the Wheeler Island, off the Odisha coast, on January 31.

The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), which has developed the missile, will launch it from a canister mounted on a road-mobile launcher, which is a TATRA truck.

A gas generator at the bottom of the canister will push the 17-metre long, 50-tonne Agni-V out of the canister.

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