Indian defense authorities announced on Saturday the successful flight test of advanced Agni missile equipped with Multiple Independently Targeted Re-entry Vehicles.
The Indian Ministry of Defence said in a statement that the missile was flight-tested from Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Island in Eastern Indian state of Odisha.
The missile equipped with multiple payloads was targeted to different targets spatially distributed over a large geographical area in the Indian Ocean Region.
Multiple ground and ship-based stations tracked the entire missile trajectory from lift-off till the impact of all payloads and all mission objectives were met during the trial.
India once again demonstrated with this trial, the capability to target multiple strategic targets using a single missile system, the statement said.
Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said this will add an incredible capability to the country’s defence preparedness against growing threat perceptions.
