India set to test launch Agni 5 missile tomorrow

December 25, 2016 19:50

India is set to test its indigenously developed intercontinental surface-to-surface nuclear capable ballistic missile 'Agni-5' from the Wheeler Island off Odisha coast tomorrow.

Range co-ordination has reached its final stage for the fourth test of Agni-5 missile, Defence Research and Development Organisation sources said. If everything goes according to plan, the missile may be test launched tomorrow, they said.

The three stage, solid propellant missile is to be test-fired from a mobile launcher from the launch complex-4 of the Integrated Test Range, the sources said.

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