BHUBANESWAR : India today successfully test fired the most advanced long range missile system ‘Agni-IV’ from a Road Mobile System from the Wheelers’ Island off the Odisha coast. Integrated Test Range(ITR) sources said the missile is one of its kinds of world class,proving many new technologies for the first time was test fired from the launch complex four of the Wheeler island at 1019 hours
The Missile System has opened a new era in the class of Long Range Missile having capability to carry Strategic Warheads for the Forces and has provided a fantastic deterrence to the country.
ITR sources said the Missile System is equipped with modern and compact Avionics with Redundancy to provide high level of reliability.
The indigenous Ring Laser Gyros based high accuracy INS (RINS) and Micro Navigation System (MINGS) complementing each other in redundant mode have been successfully flown in guidance mode.
The high performance on board computer with distributed Avionics architecture and high speed reliable communication bus and a full Digital Control System have controlled and guided the Missile to the target, sources said. All the Radars and electro-optical systems along the Coast of Odisha have tracked and monitored all the parameters of the Vehicle,defence sources said.
(AGENCIES)
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