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India launches 2nd test of Agni next week
NEW DELHI. May 23: India, basking in the satisfaction of a successful satellite launch, will carry out next week a second test-flight of its intermediate-range missile, Agni, press reports said hero today, says AFP.
The government has given the go-ahead for the planned flight, which would take place three years after Agni (fire) was first successfully test-fiown on May 22. 1989, the newspaper said, but mentioned no date for the new launch.
The Press Trust of India news agency said the test-launch had been set for "any day" between next Wednesday and Saturday from an interim test range 1n the eastern coastal state of Orissa.
Defence Ministry officials here were unavailable for
comment on the reports.
The second lest-flight of the missile, which has a range of up to 2,500 kilometres. was postponed five times, report edly under pressure from the United States
The agency said Agni had been modified to make it more efficient, with the missile s tip. which would carry the war head, and its base redesigned io improve its target bombing accuracy
A third test-flight is expected within weeks of the second to experiment with increasing Agni's range to more than 3.000 kilometres, the daily said.
Indian In 1989 became the seventh member of an exclusive club of nations of possessing ballistic missile capability, going ahead with Agni s first
launch despite concern expressed by Washington at possible missile proliferation.
Agni's planned second flight next week follows the launch Wednesday of the augmented satellite launch vehicle, whose success after two previous failures served as a morale -booster for Indian scientists.
It comes on the heels of a two-year trade ban slapped by the United States May 11 on the Indian space research organisation for purchasing 200 million dollar worth of Russian rocket technology.
Washington believed the Indo Russian deal violated the Non-Proliferalton Treaty known as the missile technology control regime.
Agni is an indigenously developed component of India's Integrated guided missile development programme.