14-07-2021 | 17:13 PM
Agni P Missile
• Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) recently successfully flight-tested a new generation nuclear-capable ballistic missile Agni P.
Key Highlights
• Missile is also known as ‘Agni Prime’.
• It was blasted-off from Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Island off Odisha coast.
• Agni-Prime is the advanced version of the Agni-1 missile.
• Flight test was monitored by various telemetry and radar stations which were positioned along the eastern coast.
• It followed textbook trajectory and met the mission objectives with a high level of accuracy.
About Agni P Missile
It is a new generation advanced variant of Agni class missiles. It is a canisters missile having a range of 1,000 and 2,000 kms. The missile can hit targets up to a range of 2000 kms. It is very short and light as compared to other missiles in this class. This new nuclear-capable missile is fully made up of composite material.
About Agni-I missile
• It is a single-stage, solid fuel, road & rail-mobile, and a Short-range ballistic missile developed by DRDO under Integrated Guided Missile Development Program.
• It is a single-stage missile that was developed after the Kargil War to fill the gap between the 250 km range of the Prithvi-II missile and the 2,500 km range of the Agni-II.
• Missile was first launched from a road-mobile launcher at Integrated Test Range (ITR) from Wheeler Island, on 25 January 2002.
• It is a 15-meter-tall Agni-I missile, weighing 12 tonnes and is capable of carrying conventional and nuclear warheads of 1,000 kg.
