India on 9 August 2012 successfully test-fired domestically built
surface-to-surface two stage Agni-II ballistic missile. The missile was
launched from a test range at Wheeler Island off Odisha coast. The
nuclear capable missile with a strike range of 2000 km was first test
fired on 11 April 1999. The missile was inducted in the Army on 17 May
2010.
The missile was launched by the strategic force command of
Indian Army as a routine users’ trial. The objective of the launch was
to train the user team to launch the missile. Agni-II is 20 metres long
and capable of carrying a nuclear warhead weighing one ton.
Agni-II was developed under the joint work of advanced systems
laboratory, the missile development laboratory of the DRDO, Defence
Research Development Laboratory and Research Centre Imarat, while it was
integrated by Bharat Dynamics Limited, Hyderabad.
The Agni-II missile belongs to the genre of medium range ballistic
missiles developed by India under the Integrated Guided Missile
Development Program. The missile was made operational by the Indian Army
in March 2010.
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