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Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Associated Press
NEW DELHI — India announced the successful test launch Thursday of a new nuclear-capable missile that would give it the capability of striking the major Chinese cities of Beijing and Shanghai for the first time.
The Agni-V missile, with a range of 5,000 kilometers (3,100 miles), still requires a battery of tests before it can be inducted into India’s arsenal. But officials hailed the successful launch as a major boost to the country’s efforts to counter China’s regional dominance and become a respected world power in its own right.
“The nation stands tall today,” Defense Minister A.K. Antony said, according to the Press Trust of India.
The test came just days after North Korea’s own failed rocket launch, but sparked none of the same global condemnation that greeted that test.
Video released by the government showed the Agni-V taking off from a small launcher on what appeared to be railroad tracks at 8:07 a.m. from Wheeler Island off India’s east coast. It rose on a pillar of flame, trailing billows of smoke behind, before arcing through the sky.
The missile hit an altitude of more than 600 kilometers (370 miles), its three stages worked properly and its payload was deployed as planned, the head of India’s Defense Research and Development Organization, Vijay Saraswat, told Times Now news channel.
“India has emerged from this launch as a major missile power,” he said.
The window for the launch opened Wednesday night, but the test had to be postponed because of weather conditions.
Avinash Chandra, mission director for the test, said that when the launch took place Thursday morning the missile performed as planned.
“We have achieved exactly what we wanted to achieve in this mission,” he told Times Now.
The Chinese government did not immediately comment on the missile launch. State-owned China Central Television called the test “a historic moment for India and it shows that India has joined the club of the countries that own ballistic missiles.”
The state broadcaster then enumerated some of the missile’s shortcomings, from a problem with guidance systems to its 50-ton-plus weight, which it said would require it to be fired from fixed, not mobile positions and thus make it more vulnerable to attack.
“It does not pose a threat in reality,” CCTV said.
The Agni-V is a solid-fuel, three-stage missile designed to carry a 1.5-ton nuclear warhead. It stands 17.5 meters (57 feet) tall and was built almost completely with Indian-made technology at a reported cost of 25 billion rupees ($486 million). It can be moved across the country by road or rail and can be used to carry multiple warheads or to launch satellites into orbit.
The missile will need four or five more trials before it can be inducted into India’s arsenal at some point in 2014 or 2015, Indian officials said.
China is far ahead of India in the missile race, with intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of reaching anywhere in India. Currently, the longest-range Indian missile, the Agni-III, has a range of 3,500 kilometers (2,100 miles) and falls short of many major Chinese cities.
India hailed Thursday’s test as a major step in its fight to be seen as a world power.
“India has today become a nation with the capability to develop, produce, build long-range ballistic missiles and today we are among the six countries who have this capability,” Saraswat said.
Analysts say France, Russia, China and the United States have this technology, while Israel is also believed to have developed such missiles.
India and China fought a war in 1962 and continue to nurse a border dispute. India has also been suspicious of Beijing’s efforts to increase its influence in the Indian Ocean in recent years.
“While China doesn’t really consider India any kind of a threat or any kind of a rival, India definitely doesn’t think in the same way,” said Rahul Bedi, a defense analyst in New Delhi.
India already has the capability of hitting anywhere inside archrival Pakistan, but has engaged in a splurge of defense spending in recent years to counter the perceived Chinese threat.
The Indian navy took command of a Russian nuclear submarine earlier this year, and India is expected to take delivery of a retrofitted Soviet-built aircraft carrier soon.
The new Agni, named for the Hindi word for fire, is part of this military buildup and was designed to hit deep inside China, Bedi said.
Government officials said the missile should not be seen as a threat.
“We have a declared no-first-use policy, and all our missile systems, they are not country specific. There is no threat to anybody,” said Ravi Gupta, spokesman for the Defense Research and Development Organization, which built the missile. “Our missile systems are purely for deterrence and to meet our security needs.”
The test came days after North Korea’s failed long-range rocket launch. North Korea said the rocket was launched to put a satellite into space, but the U.S. and other countries said it was a cover for testing long-range missile technology.
One Delhi-based Western diplomat dismissed comparisons with the international condemnation of North Korea’s launch, saying that Pyongyang was violating U.N. Security Council resolutions requiring it to suspend its missile program, while India is not considered a global threat. The diplomat spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to comment on India’s security affairs.
In Washington, State Department spokesman Mark Toner said the United States urges all nuclear-capable states to exercise restraint regarding nuclear capabilities.
“That said, India has a solid non-proliferation record,” he told a news briefing. “They’re engaged with the international community on non-proliferation issues.”
Some reports characterized the Agni-V as an intercontinental ballistic missile — which would make India one of the few countries to have that capability — but Gupta and analysts said its range fell short of that category.
India has no need for such sophisticated weapons, said Rajaram Nagappa, a missile expert and the head of the International Strategic and Security Studies Program at the National Institute of Advanced Studies in Bangalore.
“I don’t think our threat perceptions are anything beyond this region,” he said.
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Associated Press writer Matthew Pennington in Washington contributed to this report.
17 comments:
Just human made the shit what done your strenghth??? Only a bird odd and your will be to die with it.enjoy yourself!!
BRAVO INDIA. MAKE 500 TO 1000 OF THOSE MISSILE AND STRIKE CHINA WITH IT. BLOW THOSE MOTHERFUCKER EVIL COMMUNIST COUNTRY TO NOROUK
CHINA WILL BEAT THE TURBAN OUT OF YOUR RACIST STINKY HEADS!
India can't not event deal with Paskistan, let alone threatening China.
11:07 PM
haha... India. More than one billion people in a small land compared to China, million children are products of Indian fathers sleeping with their own flesh blood daughters (incest is common in India). The poverty in India is unspeakable, now India wants to attack China? Hahaha.. lol.
JUST BECAUSE CHINA HAS A GIANT ARMY DOESN'T MEAN THEY ARE GOING TO BEAT A SMALLER COUNTRY. THE ONLY THING CHINA CAN BEAT IS THEIR DICK. AND THOSE CHINESE GIRL WILL BE SUCKING MY KDOR ONCE THEIR CITY IS FLATTEN DOWN
2:06 AM
Why are so fucking upset with China? Don't you know your Viet communist leaders are already sold to China?
China just let you Viet Congs clearing the jungle then she will take over Vietnam as her new province.
India is nothing, don't worry about it. India has Muslims inside and outside are going to attack her, and China does not have to use fingers.
why people pick on china, china is not a threaten to anyonen. viet/youn is a threat to cambodia's koh tral island, if you ask me, ok!
The India is amongst the richest
countries in the world.
The top ten richest ones in 2012 are:
1.USA, $15,065 trillion.
2.China, 6,988 trillion.
3.Japan, 5,855 trillion.
4.Germany, 3,628 trillion.
5.France, 2,803 trillion.
6.UK, 2,603 trillion.
7.Brazil, 2,422 trillion.
8.Italy, 2,245 trillion.
9.India, 1,843 trillion.
10.Canada, 1,799 trillion.
Today,they compete about the economies;next they compete weapons,and last the war will begin.The small ones like Cambodia will destroy.
The China and the India have large
numbers of populations in Asia.
Will they fight to reduce numbers of their people?
When the two elephants fight,the
grass will destroy.So the small
countries will be destroyed by them.
7:27 am Said:
"The India is amongst the richest
countries in the world."
But 2/3 of their people still shit in the field and use leaves and dried grasses to wipe their butt.
some families in the rural area would strangle their new born baby girls and buried them in their back yard because girls are a burden to their family .
Cambodian copied a lot of Indian tradition but the dowry's system is the opposite.
Indian, the bride's family gives dowry to the groom's, it's the opposite in Khmer.
Baay Kdaing
AH 6:58AM AH ROLEAY
I'M UPSET WITH AH CHINA BECAUSE THOSE CHINESE GIRL WON'T LET AH SMALL DICK VIETCONG FUCK HER AND GET AIDS THEN DIED SLOW. AH KDOR KALET DON'T EVER CALLED ME A COMMUNIST VIETCONG AGAIN. I FUCKING HATE THEM JUST LIKE I HATE YOU CALLING ME AH SHITCONG AH BERT KDOR AH HU JINTAO. DON'T UNDERESTIMATE INDIA MILITARY CAPABILITY. IT CAN MAKE THOSE CHINKY EYE CHINESE SOLDIER WAVE A WHITE FLAGS UP AFTER A LOUD BOOM STRIKE THE TARGET OF AH HU JINTAO'S HEAD AND SCATTER HIS BRAIN TO THOUSAND PIECES
AH 7:16AM AH CHKOURT
NO ONE IS PICKING ON CHINA. IT'S CHINA THEM SELF THAT PICK ON A MUCH SMALLER COUNTRY OVER SOUTH CHINA SEA. THEY ARE THE BIGGEST THREAT TO THE WORLD. THE US AND THEIR ALLIES SHOULD UNITE AND TEACH CHINA A LESSON AND TELL THEM TO BACK OFF FROM THE INTERNATIONAL WATER. CHINA WILL BE WIPE OFF THE MAP IF THOSE NATO PARTNER JOINT COALITION WITH THE COUNTRY THAT HAS A DISPUTE WITH CHINA POUK AH PLER GO EAT SHIT WITH AH HUN XEN
The show of force soon will be shifted toward South Asia and East Asia. This balance of power will eventually be tested among these nations that have nuclear capabilities. These missiles will be used once everything is in place. The rise to power from China and the rise to power from South Asia will soon be errupted as these nations will compete for region domination. To think that India just simply testing these missiles without a just cause that is ludicrous. I feel that mankind is the most evil species to walk this earth. We are too intelligent for our own good. Sometimes, intelligence can actually destroy you without you taking notice as we have seen what happenned to Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
War is essential and war is a must because as mankind, we will compete. These things are possible because of Space Programs and Space Technologies. Think about it for a moment. Without the "Right Stuff" hoving 275 miles above earth which are known as "Satellites" and/or "Global Positioning Satellite or GPS".
As long as mankind continuing to look to the sky and invest heavily on Space Technologies, this world will never be a safe place for us all. To stand on the ground you cant see far, but to look from 275 miles above the earth, certainly you can see everything as these satellites are equipped with camara capabilities to track and store every information that it received from tracking devices and later transmitted these intelligences back to earth for further responses by military might from Super Power Nations or better known as "Big Brothers".
Think about it.
XMEN
GOOD ICBM, wish India the best over
Communist China and Dai Viet thief.
បរ៉ាជយ័ពួកអាកុម្មុយនីស្ដ ចោរយួនប្លន់ទឹកដី...!
នាចុងឆ្នាំ២០១២តើសង្រ្គាមលោកទីបីអាចនឹងកើតឡើងបានដែរឬទេ? មួយៗឃើញតែនាំគ្នាសាកល្បងបាញ់លែងតែគ្រាប់វែងៗ, The end of the world or what?
india is so rich, that's why india people all want to migrate to america. something is ironic about his picture, don't you think? i still think america is the best in the world, you know. god bless america.
I bet for China to smash India. I renounced India for siding with the terrorist Yuon.
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