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India’s nuclear capable missiles and submarines program

India test-fires nuclear-capable Prithvi-II missile,TNN | Jan 7, 2014, NEW DELHI: India on Tuesday morning test-fired its nuclear-capable Prithvi-II missile, which has a strike range of 350-km, from the integrated test range at Chandipur off the Odisha coast as part of “a scenario-based live launch training exercise”. ……

India is also planning to conduct more tests of the 3,500-km Agni-IV and the over 5,000-km Agni-V, which is a genuine ICBM (intercontinental ballistic missile), to prepare them for induction by 2016 or so. Agni-V brings the whole of China — including its northernmost city of Habin – and Asia as well as parts of Europe, Africa and Australia within its strike envelope…….
The lack of a long-range submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM), however, remains a big gap in India’s nuclear deterrence capabilities. But some progress is expected on this front as well with 750-km K-15 SLBM slated for test-firing when the country’s first indigenous nuclear submarine INS Arihant goes for “sea trials” later this year.http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/India-test-fires-nuclear-capable-Prithvi-II-missile/articleshow/28523357.cms

January 8, 2014 - Posted by | India, weapons and war

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