Agni-5: 10 Things to Know About the Nuclear-capable Missile

Surface-to-surface nuclear capable ballistic missile Agni-5 is capable of reaching the northern parts of China.

Agni-5 is the most advanced missiles of the series having some new technologies incorporated with it in terms of navigation and guidance, warhead and engine.

10 things to know about the missile

- The long range inter-continental guided ballistic missile can carry nuclear warhead.

- This is the fourth and final test launch of Agni-5 missile.

- India becomes 5th nation in world to have a 5,000 km range missile like Agni-5.

- The missile has been developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) of the country.

- Agni-5 has a launch mass of around 50 tonnes.

- More than Rs 2,500 crore have been spent to develop the missile.

- The Agni-V is a three-stage solid fuelled missile with composite motor casing in the second and third stage.

- The state-of-the-art missile have been specially tailored for road-mobility.

- DRDO is reportedly trying to equip each Agni-5 missile with 2–10 separate nuclear warheads.

- Total flight duration for the first flight test of Agni-5 on 20 April 2012 was for 1130 seconds