- India on December 10, 2018 successfully test-fired the indigenously built Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile Agni-5 from Abdul Kalam island under Chandipur Interim Test Range.
- This is the fourth successful test of this missile. Previously the test of Agni 4 was unsuccessful.
- Having 17 meters length and 2 meters diameter the missile can hit the target from a distance of 5 thousand kilometres.
- It can carry both nuclear and traditional weapons. The first test was conducted in 2012 from ITR Chandipur in Balasore district.
- It is a long-range surface-to-surface Nuclear Capable Ballistic missile.
- The launch operations were carried out and monitored by the Strategic Forces Command (SFC) in presence of Scientists from Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and other associated officials.
- It has a strike range of 5000 km.
