The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) on Monday successfully test fired a new variant of the Agni missile series known as Agni Prime.
The test fire was done at about 10:55 AM off the coast of Odisha from the Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam island.
India today successfully test-fired a new variant of the #Agni series known as Agni-Prime at 1055hours, off the coast of Odisha.
The new nuclear-capable missile is fully made up of composite material and it was a textbook launch@DRDO_India
Picture: Ref. pic.twitter.com/qB9RASdEFz
— Defence Decode® (@DefenceDecode) June 28, 2021
The New Generation Nuclear Capable Ballistic Missile Agni Prime is fully made of composite material.
Various telemetry and radar stations positioned along the eastern coast tracked and monitored the missile.
DRDO successfully flight tests New Generation Agni P Ballistic Missile https://t.co/vEPsqyfUpG pic.twitter.com/XoYPGiwEpR
— DRDO (@DRDO_India) June 28, 2021
As per information provided, the missile has followed the textbook trajectory and also met all the mission objectives with a high level of accuracy.
Various telemetry & radar stations positioned along the eastern coast tracked & monitored the missile. It has followed textbook trajectory, meeting all mission objectives with a high level of accuracy
Prime is a NexGen advanced canisterised missile wth a range b/w 1000 and 2000Km— Defence Decode® (@DefenceDecode) June 28, 2021
The canisterised missile has a range capability between 1000 and 2000 kilometres.
Agni-Prime is a new generation advanced variant of the Agni class of missiles. It is a canisterised missile with a range capability between 1000 and 2000 Kms: DRDO officials
— ANI (@ANI) June 28, 2021