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Agni 5 is less than 5,000km thus its not an ICBM, it's an IRBM. It will be another decade until its inducted. Probably around 2025.
In your face syndrome!
China accuses India of undermining Agni-V missile capabilities | Mail Online
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.
FIGURE THIS :
AGNI I - 700-1250 km
AGNI II - 2,0003,000 km
AGNI III - 3,500 km- 5,000 km
AGNI IV - 4000 km +
AGNI V - 5000 - 8000 km
AGNI VI - 10,000 km
An Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) is a ballistic missile with a range of more than 5,500 kilometres (3,400 mi) typically designed for nuclear weapons delivery (delivering one or more nuclear warheads). Most modern designs support multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles (MIRVs), allowing a single missile to carry several warheads, each of which can strike a different target.