Agni-5 missile successfully test-fired

India successfully test fired its home-grown long range intercontinental surface-to-surface nuclear capable ballistic missile Agni-5. 
●    The missile was test-fired from the Abdul Kalam Wheeler Island off Odisha coast at 11:05 am on 26 December 2016.
●    As per an official release, this was the fourth developmental and second test-trail of the long-range missile. 
●    Unlike other missiles of Agni series, the Agni-5 is the most advanced missile with new technologies. 
●    The technologies incorporated in this version of Agni includes navigation and guidance, warhead and engine.
●    It is a three-stage propellant missile with nuclear warhead carrying capacity of more than one tonne.
●    It is capable of striking a target more than 5000 kilometres.
●    It is about 17 meters long and 2 meter wide and has a launch weight of around 50 tonnes.
●    Agni-5 has been developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation under the Integrated Guided Missile Development Program.
●    The last test of Agni missile with striking capacity of more than 3500 km range was carried out from the Wheeler Island in January 2015.