NEW DELHI, Dec 13 (KUNA) — India is developing a 6,000-km range “Agni-IV” missile, which would bring China’s Beijing and Shanghai within its reach, said the online edition of “The Times of India” on Thursday.
The Agni-IV project was in the design stage and its trials and development could take a few years, the newspaper quoted India’s top missile scientist VK Saraswat as saying.
India will carry out three more tests of Agni-III missile next year. The 3, 500-km range Agni III missile, capable to carry a nuclear payload of upto 1.5 tonnes, is likely to be inducted into the country’s armed forces by 2009.
There are also speculations that India is developing an Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile, Surya, with a range of more than 10,000-km, the newspaper said.