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<p class=”text-body text-muted small”>The Agni-Prime – pictured above from its first test firing in June 2021 – is a surface-to-surface missile with a length of 10 m. It has a conical-shaped re-entry vehicle in comparison with the Agni II’s blunt biconic re-entry vehicle. (DRDO via PIB)</p>
<p>India’s Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and Strategic Forces Command (SFC) test-fired the Agni-Prime medium-range ballistic missile (MRBM) on 3 April from Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Island off the northeastern coast of Odisha, the Indian Ministry of Defence (MoD) said in a press release on 4 April.</p>
<p>“The test met all the trial objectives, validating its reliable performance, as confirmed from the data captured by a number of range sensors deployed at different locations, including two downrange ships placed at the terminal point,” the MoD added.</p>
<p>Rajnath Singh, India’s defence minister, said in the press release that the “successful development and induction of the missile will be an excellent force multiplier for the [Indian] Armed Forces”.</p>
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The firing was a part of the user or pre-induction test of the missile. This is the second user trial of the missile, with
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the first happening in June 2023.
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<p>The DRDO first tested the missile in June 2021 as a part of developmental trials followed by a second test in December 2021.</p>
<p>The organisation announced the completion of the missile’s development with its third test in October 2022.</p>
<p>The nuclear-capable Agni-Prime is a two-stage canisterised solid-propellant MRBM with a dual redundant navigation and guidance system, the DRDO said at the time.</p>