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Setting a new milestone in the country's Integrated Missile Development Programme, India's maiden Long Range Ballistic Missile (LRBM) AGNI-V (A-5) was successfully flight-tested on 19 April 2012.

PM congratulates DRDO scientists and technical personnel on Agni test launch success

20-Apr-2012, 09:47

The Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has congratulated the Defense Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) scientists and technical personnel for the successful test launch of Agni-V. The Prime Minister in his message said the nation stands together in honouring our scientific community who have done our country proud.

The Vice-President M Hamid Ansari, Defence Minister AK Antony and National Security Advisor (NSA) Shankar Menon also hailed the launch of the Agni-V. Manmohan Singh and Antony spoke to DRDO chief Dr VK Saraswat and Programme Director Avinash Chander yesterday, 19 April 2012 and greeted the DRDO Scientists on the A-5 success.

Setting a new milestone in the country's Integrated Missile Development Programme, India's maiden Long Range Ballistic Missile (LRBM) AGNI-V (A-5) was successfully flight-tested on 19 April 2012. The flawless auto-launch of the missile started at 08:04 hours, yesterday. Piercing the thin cloud cover, the missile took off from the launch pad at Wheeler's Island in Odisha at 08:07 hours and started rising exactly the way it was designed for. The missile, with a range of more than 5000 kms, followed the entire trajectory in copybook style perfection as the three stages of Propulsion dropped and fell at appropriate intervals into the Bay of Bengal. The three propulsion stages, developed completely indigenously by DRDO, performed exactly the way they were intended to.