India Test launches Agni -II
Strategic Forces Command (SFC) of the Army carried out the test as a part of user trial from the Wheelers Island off the Orissa coast. This is the third test; the earlier two tests ended in failure due to technical snags.
‘With this launch the Strategic Forces have carried out launch of all three versions of Agni within three months demonstrating their capability’, a defence ministry release said in Delhi on the 16 tonne missile test.
A battery of sophisticated radars, telemetry observation stations, electro-optic instruments and a naval ship located near the impact point in Bay of Bengal monitored the test, which, according to defence scientists was a training exercise to familiarise the end-users with different operational conditions for the 21-metre long, two stage, solid-propelled ballistic missile.
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