India successfully test-fires Agni-1 ballistic missile from Odisha

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File photograph  shows Agni-1 soaring into the sky.

File photograph shows Agni-1 soaring into the sky. | Photo Credit: The Hindu

India connected Friday successfully test-launched the short-range ballistic rocket Agni-1 from the Integrated Test Range successful Balasore, Odisha.

According to the Ministry of Defence, the launch, carried retired nether the aegis of Strategic Forces Command, validated each operational and method parameters of the rocket system. The palmy proceedings marks different important milestone successful maintaining the operational preparedness and strategical deterrence capableness of India’s equipped forces, it added.

Short Range Ballistic Missile 'Agni-1' was successfully test-launched from the Integrated Test Range, Chandipur, Odisha connected May 22, 2026. Conducted nether the aegis of the Strategic Forces Command, the motorboat validated each operational and method parameters, reaffirming the…

— Ministry of Defence, Government of India (@SpokespersonMoD) May 22, 2026

Earlier, connected May 8, India had successfully carried retired a formation proceedings of an precocious Agni rocket with a Multiple Independently Targetable Re-Entry Vehicle (MIRV) disconnected the seashore of the State. The MIRV diagnostic ensures that a azygous rocket tin deploy aggregate warfare heads astatine antithetic locations.

Published - May 22, 2026 10:30 p.m. IST

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