India successfully test-fires nuclear-capable Agni-III missile

Balasore/New Delhi, Feb 7 (PTI) India Sunday successfully
test-fired its indigenous Agni-III ballistic missile with a
range of 3500 kms from the Wheeler Island off the coast of
India's eastern state Orissa, making the nuclear-capable
platform ready for induction into the armed forces.

"The fourth test-firing of the Agni-III missile was
carried out at 1050 hours today. It was for the full range and
it hit the target with pin-point accuracy and met all the
mission objectives," Indian Defence Ministry spokesman
Sitanshu Kar said in New Delhi.
Two Navy ships located near the target tracked and
witnessed the missile hitting it accurately, he said.
During today's launch, the missile was fired from a
mobile rail launcher, sources in Balasore said.
Indian Defence Minister A K Antony congratulated Defence
Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) chief V K
Saraswat and the scientists involved in the Agni-III
project on the "remarkable success" of the missile test.
The defence spokesman said the launch was part of the
pre-induction trial and "now the missile system will be fully
inducted into the armed forces."
A number of radars and electro-optical tracking systems
along the coast of Orissa monitored the path of the missile
and evaluated all the parameters in real-time, Kar said.
Equipped with a state-of-the-art advanced computer, the
navigation system used for guiding the missile to its target
is the "first of its kind", he said. MORE PTI CORR
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