By Bizodisha Bureau, Bhubaneswar, October 21, 2022: India, on Friday, successfully test fired the Agni Prime new generation ballistic missile off the coast of Odisha at around 09:45 am.

During the test flight, the missile travelled the maximum range and all test objectives were successfully met. With this third consecutive successful flight test of the Agni Prime missile, the accuracy and reliability of the system has been established.

According to defence officials, “The performance of the system has been validated using the data obtained by a number of range instrumentation like radar, telemetry and electro optical tracking systems deployed at different locations including two down range ships at terminal point to cover the entire trajectory.”