Pakistan-aimed Agni-P ballistic missile flight-tested successfully

Agni-5 to be mainstay of anti-China arsenal, Agni-P deterrent against Pakistan

The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) successfully flight-tested the Agni-P, India’s most technologically advanced, nuclear-capable, ballistic missile from Balasore, Odisha, on Monday.

“Various telemetry and radar stations positioned along the eastern coast tracked and monitored the (Agni P) missile. The missile followed a textbook trajectory, meeting all mission objectives with a high level of accuracy,” stated a Ministry of Defence (MoD) press release.

While the MoD was silent on this, the Agni-P has been developed specifically to strike targets in Pakistan. Its range of 1,000-2,000 kilometres (km) is too short to reach targets in the Chinese mainland, but can comfortably cover