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Agni 5 is not an ICBM. An ICBM has to have atleast 8,000km, but Agni 5 is only 5,000km. India still has not joined the ICBM club.
Ha ha....
Its THE CHINESE Who Say So.. lol
Thursday's successful launch of the Agni- V missile continued to rattle China which has now claimed that India has deliberately downplayed its capability.
While India said the missile can cover a distance of over 5,000 kilometres, Chinese researchers felt the missile has the potential to reach targets 8,000 km away.
"The Agni-V actually has the potential to reach targets 8,000 km away, but the Indian government had deliberately downplayed the missile's capability in order to avoid causing concern to other countries," Du Wenlong, a researcher at China's PLA Academy of Military Sciences, told the Global Times on Friday.
India says the reach of Agni-V is over 5,000 km
India says the reach of Agni-V is over 5,000 km
Expressing similar sentiments, Zhang Zhaozhong, a professor with the PLA National Defence University told the Global Times: "According to China's standard, an ICBM should have a range of at least 8,000 km.
"The Agni-V's range could be further enhanced to become an Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile." On Thursday, the Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Liu Weimin had tried to downplay the missile launch.
"China and India are both emerging powers. We are not rivals but co-operative partners. We should cherish the hardearned momentum of co-operation," Liu had told the media in Beijing following the missile test.
The US, which has tried to project India as a counterweight to China, refused to criticise New Delhi for the missile launch.
"I would simply point out, because comparisons have been made to the DPRK (North Korea) and its actions, that India's record stands in stark contrast to that of North Korea," White House spokesman Jay Carney said in Washington.
The success of Agni-V has, meanwhile, opened up possibilities for the Indian defence scientists to step into the domain where they could come up with a single ballistic missile to eliminate multiple targets, launch mini satellites and destroy "enemy" satellites in the orbit.
Agni-V is a single warhead missile but it will help the ongoing Multiple Independently Targetable Re-Entry Vehicle (MIRV) project whose primary modules are at an advanced stage of development, Avinash Chander, chief controller (missiles and strategic systems) of the DRDO, said.
China accuses India of undermining Agni-V missile capabilities | Mail Online