{"id":306873,"date":"2018-12-11T10:11:50","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T10:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=306873"},"modified":"2018-12-11T10:11:50","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T10:11:50","slug":"india-successfully-test-fires-nuclear-capable-ballistic-missile-agni-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/india-successfully-test-fires-nuclear-capable-ballistic-missile-agni-5\/","title":{"rendered":"India successfully test-fires nuclear-capable ballistic missile Agni-5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-306874 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/agni-5-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/agni-5-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/agni-5-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/agni-5-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/agni-5-696x392.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/agni-5-1068x601.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/agni-5-747x420.jpg 747w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/agni-5.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">India has successfully test-fired its indigenously developed nuclear-capable ballistic missile Agni-5 from the Abdul Kalam island under\u00a0 Chandipur Interim Test Range off the Odisha coast. It was launched with the help of a mobile launcher and has a strike range of 5,000 km.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The missile is a three-stage missile, 17 metres tall, two metres wide and capable of carrying 1.5 tonnes of nuclear warheads.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The missile is developed by the Strategic Forces Command and the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO). Agni-5 is the most advanced in terms of navigation and guidance, warhead and engine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to Defence sources, this is the seventh trial of the state-of-the-art Agni-V ballistic missile. It was last tested on June 3, 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;It was a user associated trial and strategic force command with DRDO scientist conducted it,&#8221; sources further said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Defence sources added that the missile also has advantages of enhanced mobility, higher reliability, longer shelf life and less maintenance.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India has successfully test-fired its indigenously developed nuclear-capable ballistic missile Agni-5 from the Abdul Kalam island under\u00a0 Chandipur Interim Test Range off the Odisha coast. It was launched with the help of a mobile launcher and has a strike range of 5,000 km. The missile is a three-stage missile, 17 metres tall, two metres wide [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":306874,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[446,10219],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306873"}],"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\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306875,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306873\/revisions\/306875"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/306874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}