News Story: Agni-1 Tested With New Guidance Gear, Sources Say

By Vivek Raghuvanshi

NEW DELHI — Indian officials conducted what they described as routine user trials of the Agni-1 ballistic missile July 13. But sources in the government’s Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) said the real purpose was to evaluate new guidance systems developed with the help of Israel.

According to the Defence Ministry’s official news release, the Agni-1 was fired from a mobile launcher at India’s missile testing center in the eastern state of Orissa, then tracked by radar and telemetry stations along the coast. Two Indian Navy ships near the target point tracked the Agni-1 in the terminal phase of its flight.

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