Agni-V, India's strategic missile,, will be test-fired from the Wheeler
Island, off the Odisha coast, on January 31. Mr. Avinash Chander is the
key architect of Agni series of missiles.The
Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has
developed the missile.The missle will be launchedt from a canister
mounted on a
road-mobile launcher, a TATRA truck. A gas generator at the
bottom of the canister will push the 17-metre long, 50-tonne Agni-V out
of the canister.Agni-V can strike targets situated more
than 5,000 km away. It can carry a nuclear warhead weighing 1.1 tonnes.
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