Tuesday 5 February 2013

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Agni-VI all set to take shape

In this April 19, 2012 file photo, Agni-V on its launch pad at the Wheeler Island off the Orissa coast. The Defence Research and Development Organisation is developing Agni-VI with multiple nuclear warheads, which can reach targets 6,000 km away. Photo: V.V.Krishnan

  • Agni-VI with multiple nuclear warheads, which can reach targets 6,000 km away, is all set to be developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO). 

  •  Only in April last, it carried out the maiden launch of Agni-V, which has a range of more than 5,000 km. 

  •  So far, all the strategic missiles developed by the DRDO — Agni-I, II, III, IV and V, and the submarine-launched K-15 and its land-based version Shourya — can carry only single nuclear warhead. The DRDO’s tactical missiles and supersonic cruise missile BrahMos can carry one conventional warhead each.

 

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