{"id":26381,"date":"2024-09-07T11:00:42","date_gmt":"2024-09-07T05:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=26381"},"modified":"2025-04-08T01:43:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T20:13:12","slug":"agni-4-missile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/agni-4-missile\/","title":{"rendered":"Agni-4 Missile"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Agni-4 Missile:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an <strong>intermediate-range ballistic missile<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The launch of this Agni-4 was carried out from the Integrated Test Range in <strong>Odisha\u2019s Chandipur.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The launch successfully validated all operational and technical parameters. It was conducted under the aegis of the <strong>Strategic Forces Command<\/strong>, a part of India&#8217;s <strong>Nuclear Command Authority (NCA).<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Features:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It can hit as far as <strong>4,000 kilometres<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The 20-metre-long missile can carry a <strong>payload of 1,000 kg<\/strong> and can be fired from a road-mobile launcher.<\/li>\n<li>It is a <strong>surface-to-surface<\/strong> missile.<\/li>\n<li>It is a mobile, <strong>two-stage solid-fuel system<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The Agni missiles are designed and <strong>developed by the <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/quest-upsc-notes\/defence-research-and-development-organisation-drdo\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO)<\/strong><\/a><strong>.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Key facts about Strategic Forces Command<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is sometimes called <strong>Strategic Nuclear Command<\/strong>, forms part of India&#8217;s Nuclear Command Authority (NCA), which is responsible for command-and-control decisions regarding India\u2019s nuclear weapons programme.<\/li>\n<li>SFC is responsible for the management and administration of the <strong>country&#8217;s tactical and strategic nuclear weapons stockpile.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It was created on January 4, 2003.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO)?<\/h3>\n<p>DRDO was formed in 1958 by merging the then-existing Technical Development Establishment (TDEs) of the Indian Army and the Directorate of Technical Development and Production (DTDP) with the Defence Science Organisation (DSO).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatoday.in\/india\/story\/agni-4-intermediate-range-ballistic-missile-successfully-test-fired-in-odisha-2595259-2024-09-06\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Agni-4 ballistic missile successfully test-fired in Odisha<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agni-4 Missile is an intermediate-range ballistic missile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":26382,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-26381","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}