India Tests Multi-Warhead Agni Missile in Successful Trial
- On Friday, India successfully flight-tested an advanced Agni-5 variant equipped with Multiple Independently Targetable Re-entry Vehicle technology from Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Island, Odisha, under Mission Divyastra, targeting multiple locations across the Indian Ocean Region.
- The Agni-5 system has an officially declared strike range of over 5,000 km, while MIRV technology allows a single ballistic missile to carry multiple nuclear warheads, each capable of striking different targets independently.
- Sources indicate a significant technical advance in the Agni-5 Mk2 is the replacement of the earlier maraging steel first-stage casing with a lighter carbon composite filament-wound structure, improving payload efficiency and reducing missile weight.
- Although the test triggered speculation regarding the 12,000 km range Agni 6, the government has not sanctioned such a proposal; the Agni-5 Mk2 remains in validation trials before formal induction into the Strategic Forces Command.
- Only a handful of nations, including the United States, Russia, China, France, and the United Kingdom, possess operational MIRV capability, a technology originally developed in the early 1960s to deliver multiple warheads from a single missile.
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India tests multi-warhead Agni missile in successful trial
India successfully flight-tested an advanced Agni ballistic missile equipped with Multiple Independently Targeted Re-Entry Vehicle (MIRV) capability on May 8, 2026, launching from Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Island off the coast of Odisha and striking multiple separate targets with a single missile. India’s Ministry of Defense confirmed the test through its official social media account, […]
The Agni ballistic missile is equipped with MIRV technology, which allows one missile to deliver several individual warheads.
India successfully tests Agni missile with multiple targets India successfully tests Agni missile with multiple targets. The launch took place from Abdul Kalam Island off the coast of Odisha.
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