DRDO's statement
INDIA LAUNCHES NEW GENERATION STRATEGIC MISSILE AGNI-V
New Delhi: Chaitra 30, 1934
April 19, 2012
Setting a new milestone in the country’s Integrated Missile
Development Programme, India’s maiden Long Range Ballistic Missile (LRBM)
AGNI-V (A-5) was successfully flight tested today.
The flawless auto-launch of the missile started at 08:04
hours. Piercing the thin cloud cover, the missile took off from the launch pad
at Wheeler’s Island in Odisha at 08:07 hours and started rising exactly the way
it was designed for. The missile, with a range of more than 5000 kms, followed
the entire trajectory in copybook style perfection as the three stages of
Propulsion dropped and fell at appropriate intervals into the Bay of Bengal.
The three propulsion stages, developed completely indigenously by DRDO,
performed exactly the way they were intended to. The indigenously
developed Composite Rocket Motors performed well, signifying the country’s
stride and complete self-reliance in this complex propulsion technology.
Ships located in midrange and at the target point tracked
the Vehicle and witnessed the final event. Radars and electro-optical
systems along the path monitored in real time all the parameters of the Missile.
A number of new technologies developed indigenously were
successfully tested in this A-5 Mission. The redundant Navigation
systems, very high accuracy Ring Laser Gyro based Inertial Navigation System
(RINS) and the most modern and accurate Micro Navigation System (MINS) ensured
the Missile reach the target point within few meters of accuracy. The high
speed onboard computer and fault tolerant software along with robust and
reliable bus guided the Missile flawlessly.
Air Marshal
K.J. Mathews, Commander-in-Chief, Strategic Forces Command (C-in-C, SFC), who
witnessed the launch, said that the success of Agni-V is a historic event for
India. Dr V.G. Sekaran, Director, Advanced Systems Laboratory (ASL), Dr
S.K. Chaudhari, Director, Research Centre IMARAT (RCI), Shri A.K. Chakrabarti,
Director, Defence Research and Development Laboratory (DRDL), Shri S.P. Dash,
Director, Interim Test Range (ITR), Shri Guruprasad, Director, Research &
Development Engineers (R&DE Engineers, Pune) were present during the launch
operations. R.K. Gupta, Project Director guided the team of
Scientists and employees of DRDO during the launch activities.
The proudest moment for an Indian after 1998 Pokhran N-Tests! Thanks DRDO, thanks Saraswat, thanks Avinash Chander and thanks'Agni Putri' Tessy Thomas!
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