Agni-5 of India in a military parade in 2013 (image source: wikipedia.org.)
China's People's Daily reported that India's third launch of its Agni-5 Intercontinental Ballistic Missile on January 31 was successful. The BBC backed up the report and said that India launched Agni-5 from Wheeler Island in eastern province of Odisha but unlike the first two launches that conducted in 2012 and 2013, Agni-5 was launched from a vehicle.
Although the launched was claimed as successful, Ifeng of Hong kong's Phoenix New Media is skeptical about the physical specification of the said ICBM. He doubts Agni-5's capability to carry nuclear warheads andm its mobility features.
This locally produced missile of India is a land-to-land ICBM that can carry as heavy as one ton warhead. It is 17 meters long and weighs 50 tons. This ICBM is fueled with three-stage solid rocket propellants that can power up the missile up to 5,000 kilometers away.
Phoenix New Media's Ifeng commented that few of the improvements have been made from Agni-3 like being able to reduce the ICBM's diameter and able to make the range farther. The media agency stated that Agni-5 is a desperate attempt to make China worried and make up for the technological gap from Agni-3.
Although the launched was claimed as successful, Ifeng of Hong kong's Phoenix New Media is skeptical about the physical specification of the said ICBM. He doubts Agni-5's capability to carry nuclear warheads andm its mobility features.
This locally produced missile of India is a land-to-land ICBM that can carry as heavy as one ton warhead. It is 17 meters long and weighs 50 tons. This ICBM is fueled with three-stage solid rocket propellants that can power up the missile up to 5,000 kilometers away.
Phoenix New Media's Ifeng commented that few of the improvements have been made from Agni-3 like being able to reduce the ICBM's diameter and able to make the range farther. The media agency stated that Agni-5 is a desperate attempt to make China worried and make up for the technological gap from Agni-3.
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