India on Tuesday positively test-fired its short-range nuclear-capable ballistic missile Agni-1 with a bang ambit of over 700 km from an analysis ambit offs the Odisha coast.

The indigenously developed surface-to-surface missile was launched as an allotment of an alternate training action by the Strategic Forces Command (SFC) of the Army to consolidate operational readiness.

The advanced missile was launched about 8.30 am from an adaptable launcher at Pad 4 of the Chip Analysis Range (ITR) at the Dr Abdul Kalam Island, aforetime accepted as Wheeler Island.

Describing the balloon a “complete success”, they said that all the mission objectives were met during the test.

The aisle of the balloon was tracked by a array of adult radars, telemetry ascertainment stations, electro-optic instruments and argosy ships appropriate from its barrage till the missile hit the ambition breadth with pin point accuracy. The adult Agni-I missile is propelled by a solid rocket propellant arrangement and is able with a specialized aeronautics arrangement that ensures it alcove the ambition with a top amount of precision.

Weighing about 12 tonnes, the 15-metre-long Agni-I can backpack payloads up to 1,000 kg and is able of hitting an ambition above 700 km. The missile is as well able of accustomed nuclear warheads. The Agni-I was developed by the Advanced Systems Laboratory (ASL) in accord with the Defense Research Development Laboratory (DRDL) and the Research Centre Imarat (RCI). The missile was chip by the Bharat Dynamics Limited, Hyderabad.