{"id":285324,"date":"2018-02-20T12:42:49","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T07:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/?p=285324"},"modified":"2018-02-20T12:42:49","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T07:12:49","slug":"india-test-fires-nuclear-cabable-agni-ii-from-abdul-kalam-island-off-odisha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/india-test-fires-nuclear-cabable-agni-ii-from-abdul-kalam-island-off-odisha\/","title":{"rendered":"India test fires nuclear cabable Agni II from Abdul Kalam island off Odisha"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_285325\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-285325\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Agni2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-285325 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Agni2-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Agni2\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" data-id=\"285325\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-285325\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">File Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Indian Army on February 20 successfully test fired nuclear Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile (IRBM) Agni-II from Abdul Kalam Island off Odisha coast.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The surface-to-surface missile met all the mission parameters, according to defence officials.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The successful launch has once again proved reliability of the medium range missile. Radar, telemetry systems, electro-optical tracking stations tracked and monitored the mission parameters throughout the trajectory. The mission was highly successful and flawless,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The test was carried out by the Army\u2019s Strategic Forces Command (SFC) with logistic support provided by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The state-of-the-art missile is already a part of the country\u2019s arsenal for strategic deterrence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian Army on February 20 successfully test fired nuclear Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile (IRBM) Agni-II from Abdul Kalam Island off Odisha coast. The surface-to-surface missile met all the mission parameters, according to defence officials. &#8220;The successful launch has once again proved reliability of the medium range missile. Radar, telemetry systems, electro-optical tracking stations tracked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":285325,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[56,39],"tags":[622,623,230,624,625],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285324"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}