BALASORE
(NNN-PTI) -- India has test-fired its nuclear-capable strategic missile Agni-IV
with a strike range of about 4000 km from a test range off Odisha coast.
It
was test launched Wednesday with the help of a mobile launcher from launch
complex-4 of ITR at Wheeler Island, about 100 km from here, at about 1145
hours, defence sources said.
A
high performance on-board computer with distributed avionics architecture and
high speed reliable communication bus and a full Digital Control System were
used to control and guide the missile to the target.
"It
is equipped with modern and compact avionics to provide high level of
reliability," a DRDO official said.
"The
state-of-the-art Ring Laser Gyros based high accuracy INS (RINS) and Micro
Navigation System (MINGS) complementing each other in redundant mode have been
incorporated into the missile system in guidance mode," the sources said.
The
sophisticated missile is lighter in weight and has two stages of solid
propulsion. The payload, with a re-entry heat shield can withstand temperature
of more than 3000 degree Celsius, a defence scientist said.
The
missile is undergoing developmental trials by country’s premier Defence
Research and Development Organisation.
The
last trial of the missile, carried out on November 15, 2011 from the same base
was successful. --NNN-PTI
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