What is Agni Prime?
Agni-P or Agni-Prime is a new-generation medium range nuclear capable ballistic missile.
It has a strike range from 1,000 to 2,000-km.
Agni-Prime incorporates:
New propulsion systems
Composite rocket motor casings
Advanced navigation and guidance systems.
Significantly, it is also a canister-launch system like the country's first intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), the over 5,000-km Agni-V, which is now in the process of being inducted by the Strategic Forces Command (SFC).
What is Agni Prime?
A canister-launch missile with the warhead already mated with the missile gives the armed forces the:
Requisite operational flexibility to store it for long periods.
Swiftly transport it through rail or road when required.
Fire it from wherever they want.
Along with Agni-V, the new missile would provide India with stronger deterrence against both China and Pakistan.
What is Agni Prime?
While Agni-V brings all of China within its strike range.
Agni-P seems to have been developed keeping Pakistan in mind.
Development and testing
It is being developed by India's Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) as a successor for Agni-I and Agni-II missiles in the operational service of Strategic Forces Command (SFC).
It was successfully flight-tested in night from Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Island off Odisha.
This was the first pre-induction night launch conducted by the users after three successful developmental trials of the missile, validating the accuracy and reliability of the system.
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