Agni in India’s belly, nation feels secure

Call it what you like: The Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile, the Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile or the Long Range Ballistic Missile. The naming exercise will neither reduce the massive strike range of Agni V nor will it dilute the missile’s deterrence capability. Technical minds can deliberate over the nomenclature and argue that Agni V, with a range of 5,000 kilometres, is not really an ICBM because ICBMs are supposed to have a range of 5,500 kilometres and more.

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