On 9 august 2012 India successfully test-fired its medium
ranges nuclear capable Agni-II ballistic missile with a strike range
of 2000 km. The missile produced by the Defence Research and
Development Organization (DRDO). The 20-metre long and weighted
as 17 tones. Agni-II is a two-stage, solid-propelled
ballistic missile and has the capacity to carry a nuclear war head
of weighing one ton. It climbed 20 km after lifting off to a
height of 220km, and then flew 2,00km in a flawless mission of 700
seconds towards the target at Bay of Bengal. This mission held at Wheeler
Island, off the Odisha coast. The missile Ranging Agni-I 700km,
Agni-II 2,000 km, Agni-III-3,300km. The future projects are Agni 4 and Agni
5 to launch.
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