Agni-V missile News

Amid tensions between India and Pakistan, both countries have test-fired new missiles and weapons in a fresh show of strength. While Pakistan test-fired two missiles - a surface-to-surface ballistic missile with a range of 120 kilometres from its Fatah series and a surface-to-surface missile with a range of 450 kms from its Abdali weapon system. On the other hand, India successfully test-fired an advanced underwater naval mine designed to enhance the Navy's capabilities against modern stealth ships and submarines. Earlier, the Indian Navy undertook successful multiple anti-ship firings to revalidate and demonstrate readiness of platforms, systems and crew for long-range precision offensive strike. Both India and Pakistan are nuclear-capable countries and here is a look at who has an edge in this contest: 

India successfully test-fired 'Agni-5 missile', capable of engaging a target upto 5,000 km away. This missile has been tested with new technologies and equipment. Know the speciality of this missile in this report.

The BrahMos missile, having a range of 290 km and a Mach 2.8 speed, is capable of being launched from land, sea, sub-sea and air against sea and land targets.  

After the successful test-launch of the indigenously developed intercontinental surface-to-surface nuclear capable ballistic missile ‘Agni-5’ from the Wheeler Island off Odisha coast on Monday, the scientists at the DRDO have begun work for a more lethal Agni-VI missile.

India successfully test-fired its most potent indigenously developed intercontinental surface-to-surface nuclear capable ballistic missile Agni-V on Monday. The nuclear-capable, inter-continental ballistic missile (ICBMs) Agni-V with a range of over 5,000 km covering whole of China, was test-fired from Abdul Kalam island off Odisha coast.