New Delhi: Defence officials on Thursday informed that India successfully test fired Agni Prime, the new generation ballistic missile, off the coast of Odisha.
“During the test flight, the missile travelled the maximum range and all test objectives were successfully met. With this third consecutive successful flight test of the Agni Prime missile, the accuracy and reliability of the system have been established,” Defence officials said, as quoted by news agency ANI.
It was further informed that the performance of the system has been validated using the data obtained by a number of range instrumentation like Radar, Telemetry and Electro Optical Tracking systems deployed at different locations including two down-range ships at the terminal point to cover the entire trajectory.
(With ANI Inputs)