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The Indian military successfully tested a nuclear-capable, medium-range ballistic missile off its eastern coast on Monday, a defence official said. The surface-to-surface Agni-II, which can deliver a nuclear warhead to targets within a range of 2,500 kilometres (1,560 miles), was fired from a mobile rail launcher on Wheeler Island off the coast of Orissa state. The Agni-II has already been inducted into the services and Monday's "user test" was carried out by the army's Strategic Forces Command. "The user trial of the missile was successful and matched all mission objectives," said S.P. Dash, the director of the test range. It...

a hat-trick for missile technologists and the armed forces in the last two days, Agni-I, which can carry nuclear weapons and has range of 700 km, was flight-tested successfully from the Wheeler's Island, off the Orissa coast, on Sunday. The ship-based Dhanush and Prithvi-II were test-fired in a salvo mode on Saturday. The medium range surface-to-surface Agni-I, fired at 1.07 hours from a mobile launcher, homed in on the target within a few metres of accuracy as it splashed down in the Bay of Bengal. The launch was carried out by Army personnel as part of a training exercise. Best-ever...

India has test-fired a variant of its home-grown nuclear-capable Agni ballistic missile from a test site on its east coast(AFP/File/Raveendran ) India tests nuclear-capable ballistic missile BHUBANESHWAR, India (AFP) - India has test-fired a variant of its home-grown nuclear-capable Agni ballistic missile from a test site on its east coast, a defence official said. The surface-to-surface intermediate range Agni-II, with a maximum strike range of 2,500 kilometres (1,560 miles), was fired from a mobile launcher on Wheeler Island off eastern Orissa state, the official said on Sunday. It was India's third test of the Agni-II. The missile was first...