India will test 5,000-km-range nuclear-capable missile

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India will test a nuclear-capable missile with a range over 5,000 kilometres (3,000 miles) within a year, the country's top military scientist V.K. Saraswat said Wednesday, which could stoke regional tensions. (AFP Photo)

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NEW DELHI , FEB 10 - India will test a nuclear-capable missile with a range over 5,000 kilometres (3,000 miles) within a year, the country's top military scientist said Wednesday, which could stoke regional tensions.

"The next series of missiles is Agni-V, which has left the drawing board and is moving toward the first flight trial within the year," the country's chief military scientist V.K. Saraswat told a news conference in New Delhi.

India's current longest-range nuclear-capable missile Agni-III can travel a maximum of 3,500 kilometres and Saraswat announced the system was now ready for use by the military.

"It is the full deterrence that the country needs," he said.

Posted on: 2010-02-10 08:16

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