{"id":136564,"date":"2021-09-24T20:51:50","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T15:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=136564"},"modified":"2021-09-27T10:28:22","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T04:58:22","slug":"key-trial-of-5000-km-icbm-agni-v-in-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/key-trial-of-5000-km-icbm-agni-v-in-october\/","title":{"rendered":"Key trial of 5,000-km ICBM Agni-V in October"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India is set to conduct the first user trial of Agni-V Missile.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is Agni-V?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><b>Agni-V<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">nuclear-capable <strong>InterContinental Ballistic Missile<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(ICBM). The missile has<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> been developed by the<strong> Defence Research and Development Organization<\/strong> (DRDO) and Bharat Dynamics Limited (BDL).<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What are the key Features of Agni-V missiles?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><b>Expected Range:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The missile has a strike range of around 5,000 kms and can hit targets deep inside China, entire Asia and Europe and parts of Africa.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Weight: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The missile weighs close to 50,000 kilograms. The missile is 1.75 meters tall with a diameter of 2 metres. It can<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">carry a nuclear payload of 1,500 kg.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>MIRV Technology<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: The most striking feature of Agni-V is its MIRV (<strong>Multiple Independently Targetable Reentry Vehicles<\/strong>) technology. In this technique, multiple weapons can be installed instead of one in the warhead mounted on the missile. That is, a missile can hit multiple targets simultaneously.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Satellite Guidance:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The missile is equipped with a ring laser gyroscope inertial navigation system (NavIC) that works with satellite guidance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201d<\/b><b>Key trial of 5,000-km ICBM Agni-V in October<\/b><b>\u201d <\/b>published in <b>TOI <\/b>on <b>24th September 2021.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the News? India is set to conduct the first user trial of Agni-V Missile. What is Agni-V? Agni-V is a nuclear-capable InterContinental Ballistic Missile(ICBM). The missile has been developed by the Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO) and Bharat Dynamics Limited (BDL). What are the key Features of Agni-V missiles? Expected Range: The&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/key-trial-of-5000-km-icbm-agni-v-in-october\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Key trial of 5,000-km ICBM Agni-V in October<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,9],"tags":[9931,1255,5247,5990],"class_list":["post-136564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-agni-missiles","tag-defence-technology","tag-icbm","tag-missiles","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704923130},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}