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Radio France Internationale
Radio France Internationale
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Pratap Chakravarty

India joins US, France, Britain with missile that fires multiple N-warheads

A surface-to-surface Agni V missile is launched from the Wheeler Island off the eastern Indian state of Odisha on 19 April 2012. Reuters / Indian Defence Research and Development Organisation

India has joined Britain, France, Russia, and the US with the first successful test of its nuclear-capable missile that can carry multiple warheads up to a range of 5,000 kilometres.

India hailed the maiden flight of the multiple independently targetable reentry vehicle (MIRV) technology on the Agni-5 missile as a “historic moment in our quest for self-reliance in the field of missile technology.”

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