{"id":9130,"date":"2022-10-25T08:13:30","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T02:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=9130"},"modified":"2025-03-29T11:26:43","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T05:56:43","slug":"agni-prime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/agni-prime\/","title":{"rendered":"Agni Prime"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Agni Prime:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The &#8216;Agni Prime&#8217; is a two-stage canisterised solid-propellant missile with dual redundant navigation and guidance system.<\/li>\n<li>The nuclear-capable missile has been designed and developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO).<\/li>\n<li>The surface-to-surface ballistic missile has a range of 1000 to 2000 km.<\/li>\n<li>The Agni Prime missile, the smallest and lightest among the entire Agni series of ballistic missiles.<\/li>\n<li>It weighs 50 per cent less than the Agni 3 missile and has new guidance and propulsion systems.<\/li>\n<li>In addition, since it is canisterised, it can be launched from rail or road, be stored for longer periods and can be transported as per operational requirements.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>List of Agni missiles:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Agni-I<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The Agni-I is a short to medium-range ballistic missile.<\/li>\n<li>Range: 700-800 Km<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Agni-II<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The Agni-II is a medium-range ballistic missile equipped with two solid fuel stages.<\/li>\n<li>Range: 2000 Km<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Agni-III<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The Agni-III is an intermediate-range ballistic missile equipped with two solid fuel stages.<\/li>\n<li>Range: 3000 Km<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Agni-IV<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The Agni-IV is an intermediate-range ballistic missile equipped with two solid fuel stages.<\/li>\n<li>Range: 4000 Km<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Agni-V<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The Agni-V is an intercontinental range ballistic missile with three solid fuel stages.<\/li>\n<li>Range: 5000 Km<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/india\/agni-prime-new-generation-ballistic-missile-successfully-test-fired-odisha-coast-8222935\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Indian Express<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agni Prime&#8217; is a two-stage canisterised solid-propellant missile with dual redundant navigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":9131,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9130","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\/9130","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=9130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}