Days After China Clash, Agni V Successfully Tested, It Can Reach Beijing - NDTV

New Delhi:

India has successfully carried retired nighttime trials of the Agni V nuclear-capable ballistic rocket which tin deed targets beyond 5,400 km, sources successful the Defence Ministry said connected Thursday, amid heightened tensions with China implicit clashes on the de facto borderline successful Arunachal Pradesh past week.

The trial was carried retired to validate caller technologies and instrumentality connected the rocket and has proved that the rocket tin present deed targets further distant than before, they added.

The nuclear-capable ballistic rocket was fired from Abdul Kalam Island, disconnected the seashore of Odisha. This is the ninth formation of the Agni V - a rocket archetypal tested successful 2012 - and was a regular test, Defence Ministry sources said.

While the trial was carried retired days aft the clashes, it had been planned earlier. India had announced its volition to trial a long-range rocket and issued a NOTAM oregon Notice to Airmen good earlier the incidental successful Arunachal's Tawang.

With the incursion successful Arunachal, China had tried to "unilaterally alteration the presumption quo" connected the de facto borderline known arsenic Line of Actual Control past week, triggering clashes that near troops connected some sides injured, the authorities had said, adding that the effort had been successfully repulsed.

The incidental is thought to beryllium the astir superior connected the nuclear-armed Asian giants' disputed frontier since 2020 erstwhile 20 Indian troops and 4 Chinese soldiers died successful brawling successful Ladakh's Galwan Valley.

China and India fought a full-scale warfare successful 1962 implicit power of Arunachal Pradesh, which Beijing claims successful its entirety and considers portion of Tibet.

The clash successful Tawang followed associated subject exercises that irked Beijing past period betwixt India and the United States successful Uttarakhand, which borders China.