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NEW DELHI: DRDO connected Friday evening launched the maiden trial of a nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic rocket (ICBM) disconnected the Odisha coast. "Though the test-launch doesn't look similar that of an Agni-6 missile, the rocket tested contiguous is of ICBM category," a defence root confirmed to TOI.
However, DRDO is yet to officially denote astir the rocket test. Days ago, TOI had reported that DRDO was going to motorboat a rocket trial of ICBM category. Only 4 countries - US, Russia, China and North Korea - person ICBM exertion and person deployed ICBMs with implicit 12,000-km range. France and Britain person operational nuclear-armed submarine-launched ballistic rocket (SLBM) technology. If India perfects ICBM capability, immoderate state successful the world, including the US, volition travel successful its rocket onslaught range.
The motorboat came days aft DRDO president Samir V Kamath, during a defence summit, had said astir Agni-6 that "the infinitesimal govt gives permission, we are acceptable to determination forward. All method preparations are complete". The possession of nuclear-capable ICBM exertion means the quality to respond to a atomic attack, frankincense preventing immoderate state from attacking first. It besides demonstrates mastery successful analyzable rocket propulsion, guidance systems and re-entry technology.
India gets tech to crook ‘dumb’ warhead into ‘smart’ weapon
India has developed a glide limb strategy exertion that tin person an unguided (“dumb”) warhead into a guided (“smart”) weapon, marking its introduction into an elite radical of countries that person precocious stand-off weapons capabilities, reports Surendra Singh. On Thursday, DRDO and IAF jointly conducted the archetypal flight-trial of Tactical Advanced Range Augmentationweapon disconnected Odisha’s coast, the defence ministry said Friday.
The modular scope hold kit is India’s archetypal indigenous glide limb strategy to person unguided warheads into precision-guided weapons.
