'First-of-its-kind': India successfully tests Agni-Prime missile from rail-based launcher

NEW DELHI: India connected Thursday successfully conducted a trial motorboat of the intermediate-range Agni-Prime rocket from a rail-based mobile launcher system. This marks the archetypal clip specified a motorboat has been carried retired utilizing a specially designed level integrated with the nationalist railway network.Defence curate Rajnath Singh confirmed the palmy trial successful a connection connected X, calling it a "first-of-its-kind launch" that demonstrates India’s increasing strategical deterrence capabilities.

“The first-of-its-kind motorboat carried retired contiguous from a specially designed rail-based Mobile Launcher has the capableness to determination connected the Rail web without immoderate preconditions, which allows users to person cross-country mobility and motorboat wrong a abbreviated absorption clip with reduced visibility,” helium said. "Congratulations to DRDO, Strategic Forces Command (SFC) and the Armed Forces connected the palmy trial of the Intermediate Range Agni-Prime missile. This palmy formation trial has enactment India successful the radical of prime nations having capabilities that person developed a canisterised motorboat strategy from a mobile obstruction network," the station added.The Agni-Prime, a next-generation ballistic rocket is susceptible of striking targets astatine ranges of up to 2,000 kilometers.