Fire in the sky

The spectacular launch of Agni V from Wheeler Island off our east coast, a site that has seen dozens of Prithvi and Agni launches over the past two decades, brings to mind all that has gone into the success of India’s missile programme. It was in the mid-1980s that our Defence Research and Development Organisation, better known as DRDO, initiated work on what was then called the Integrated Guided Missile Development Project (IGMDP).

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