{"id":31473,"date":"2018-10-27T14:13:46","date_gmt":"2018-10-27T08:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=31473"},"modified":"2018-10-27T14:13:46","modified_gmt":"2018-10-27T08:43:46","slug":"agni-1-test-fired-off-the-odisha-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/agni-1-test-fired-off-the-odisha-coast\/","title":{"rendered":"Agni 1 test-fired off the Odisha coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-national\/agni-1-test-fired-off-the-odisha-coast\/article22672646.ece\"><b>Agni 1 test-fired off the Odisha coast<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Context:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India successfully test-fired its short<\/span><b>-range nuclear capable ballistic missile Agni-1<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with a strike rang of over 700 km from a test range off the Odisha coast.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Key facts about Agni-1<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The 15-metre-long Agni-I weighing 12 tonne can carry payloads up to 1,000 kg.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Strategic Forces Command of the Army conducted the user trial of the 700 km range missile from launch pad-4 of the <\/span><b>Integrated Test Range (ITR) <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">at Abdul Kalam Island in Balasore.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The missile was inducted into service in 2004.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>surface-to-surface<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, single stage missile, powered by solid propellants, was launched as part of a regular training exercise by the armed forces.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The sophisticated Agni-I missile is propelled by a <\/span><b>solid rocket propellant system<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was also equipped with a s<\/span><b>pecialised navigation system <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">that ensures it reaches the target with a high degree of precision.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has proved its excellent performance in terms of range and accuracy.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The last trial was successfully conducted on November 22, 2016 from the same base.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agni 1 test-fired off the Odisha coast Context: India successfully test-fired its short-range nuclear capable ballistic missile Agni-1 with a strike rang of over 700 km from a test range off the Odisha coast. Key facts about Agni-1 The 15-metre-long Agni-I weighing 12 tonne can carry payloads up to 1,000 kg. The Strategic Forces Command&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/agni-1-test-fired-off-the-odisha-coast\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Agni 1 test-fired off the Odisha coast<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704580435},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31473","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}