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Agni-5 test in a year, but no ICBM programme: DRDO



It's just .5 metres longer than the Agni-3 but can carry a 1.5 ton nuclear warhead to any point in China.



India is to testfire the Agni-5, a missile with a range of over 5000 km, within a year.



Revealing this, DRDO chief Dr VK Saraswat said that testing and evaluation of the sub-systems of the Agni-5 were on and the flight trial of the missile which looks identical to the Agni-3 and approaches ICBM capability would be conducted "within a year".



The missile marks the culmination of the Agni series of strategic missiles Dr Saraswat said.



He denied that India had any programme to build a full-scale Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM)-missiles with ranges in excess of 5500 km.



India Today





Gurus what is your opinion on this? isn't the AGNI 3SL suppose to be have a range of 8500kms? did anyone has any update on this?