Days after India announced that it successfully carried out final test run of nuclear-capable ballistic missile Agni-IV, Pakistan has conveyed its “concern” about New Delhi’s missiles programme to the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR), saying that it posed “a danger to regional peace and stability.”
According to the Express Tribune, Pakistan in its statement has said that India’s introduction of “destabilising systems such as missile defence programmes and inter-continental ballistic missiles was posing a danger to regional peace and stability.”
Earlier on January 2, India conducted final test run of nuclear-capable strategic ballistic missile Agni-IV from test range off Odisha coast.
The indigenously developed surface-to-surface Agni-IV missile is a two-stage weapon system. It is 20 metres long and weighs 17 tonnes. Agni-IV missile is equipped with 5th generation onboard computer and distributed architecture. It has the latest features to correct and guide itself for in-flight disturbances.
Describing the trial as successful, the DRDO said this was the 6th trial of the indigenously developed Agni-IV missile which met the mission objectives.
Agni-I, II and III and Prithvi are already in the arsenal of the armed forces, giving them reach of over 3000 kms and providing the country an effective deterrence capability.
