India conducts flight trial of advanced variant of Agni missile

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India has successfully carried retired a formation proceedings of an Advanced Agni rocket with Multiple Independently Targetable Re-Entry Vehicle. Photo Credit: MoD

India has successfully carried retired a formation proceedings of an Advanced Agni rocket with Multiple Independently Targetable Re-Entry Vehicle (MIRV) disconnected the seashore of Odisha.

The MIRV diagnostic ensures that a azygous rocket tin deploy aggregate warfare heads astatine antithetic locations.

The rocket strategy was tested connected Friday (May 8, 2026), according to the Defence Ministry.

"India conducted the palmy flight-trial of an precocious Agni rocket with Multiple Independently Targeted Re-Entry Vehicle (MIRV) strategy from APJ Abdul Kalam Island, Odisha connected May 8," it said.

The rocket was flight-tested with aggregate payloads, targeted to antithetic targets spatially distributed implicit a ample geographical country successful the Indian Ocean Region, the Defence Ministry added.

Published - May 09, 2026 05:20 p.m. IST

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