Agni-5 successfully test fired

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Agni-5, India’s longest range nuclear cable missile, was successfully test fired at Kalam Island off the Odisha coast today.

This was the first test of the Agni-5 missile after India became a member of the Missile Technology Control Regime, a 35-nation group to check the spread of unmanned delivery systems for nuclear weapons.

The 17-metre long Agni-5 Missile weighs about 50 tonnes and is a very agile and modern weapon system.

India already has in its arsenal the Agni 1, 2, 3 and 4 missile systems and supersonic cruise missiles like Brahmos.