{"id":12926,"date":"2012-04-19T20:04:48","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T20:04:48","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-04-19T20:04:48","modified_gmt":"2012-04-19T20:04:48","slug":"India-tests-nuke-capable-missile-able-to-hit-China","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=12926","title":{"rendered":"India tests nuke-capable missile able to hit China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>India announced the successful test launch Thursday of a new nuclear-capable missile that would give it the ability to strike the major Chinese cities of Beijing and Shanghai for the first time, a significant step forward in its aspirations to become a regional and world power.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Agni-V missile, with a range of 5,000 kilometers (3,100 miles), still requires a battery of tests and must clear other bureaucratic hurdles before it can be inducted into India&#8217;s arsenal in a few years. But officials hailed the launch as proof the country has taken its place among the world&#8217;s most powerful and scientifically advanced nations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch: The Agni V Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile launch<br \/>\nIndia successfully test-fired the surface-to-surface Agni V Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) capable of covering entire China and reaching deep into Europe.<\/strong><br \/>\n<iframe width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Io-9edOgs0o\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The missile hit an altitude of more than 600 kilometers (370 miles), its three stages worked properly and its payload was deployed as planned, the head of India&#8217;s Defense Research and Development Organization, Vijay Saraswat, told Times Now news channel.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Weimin declined to discuss the launch at a regular news conference Thursday, saying only that India and China should work together as strategic partners.<\/p>\n<p>But a state TV report on the launch enumerated the missile&#8217;s shortcomings and a Chinese newspaper warned India not to get arrogant and overestimate its strength.<\/p>\n<p><strong>It also warned India not to work with Western allies to try to contain China.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Agni-V is a solid-fuel, three-stage missile designed to carry a 1.5-ton nuclear warhead. It stands 17.5 meters (57 feet) tall, has a launch weight of 50 tons and was built mainly with Indian-made technology at a reported cost of 25 billion rupees ($486 million). It can be moved across the country by road or rail and can be used to carry multiple warheads or to launch satellites into orbit.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The missile will need four or five more trials before it can be inducted into India&#8217;s arsenal at some point in 2014 or 2015, Indian officials said.<\/strong><br \/>\n<!--break--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India announced the successful test launch Thursday of a new nuclear-capable missile that would give it the ability to strike<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70975,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"magazineBlocksPostFeaturedMedia":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dog_0-150x150.jpg","medium":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dog_0.jpg","medium_large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dog_0.jpg","large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dog_0.jpg","1536x1536":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dog_0.jpg","2048x2048":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dog_0.jpg","colormag-highlighted-post":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dog_0.jpg","colormag-featured-post-medium":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dog_0-225x205.jpg","colormag-featured-post-small":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dog_0-130x90.jpg","colormag-featured-image":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dog_0.jpg","colormag-default-news":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dog_0-150x150.jpg","colormag-featured-image-large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dog_0.jpg","colormag-elementor-block-extra-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dog_0.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dog_0.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-small-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dog_0.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-medium-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dog_0-225x198.jpg"},"magazineBlocksPostAuthor":{"name":"Admin","avatar":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/53e6cdc30765aade0129f85e5aeb50124b1d3f5bb9a70373be31e4eb328371e0?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"magazineBlocksPostCommentsNumber":"0","magazineBlocksPostExcerpt":"India announced the successful test launch Thursday of a new nuclear-capable missile that would give it the ability to strike","magazineBlocksPostCategories":["News"],"magazineBlocksPostViewCount":127,"magazineBlocksPostReadTime":2,"magazine_blocks_featured_image_url":{"full":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dog_0.jpg",225,225,false],"medium":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dog_0.jpg",225,225,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dog_0-150x150.jpg",150,150,true]},"magazine_blocks_author":{"display_name":"Admin","author_link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?author=1"},"magazine_blocks_comment":0,"magazine_blocks_author_image":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/53e6cdc30765aade0129f85e5aeb50124b1d3f5bb9a70373be31e4eb328371e0?s=96&d=mm&r=g","magazine_blocks_category":"<a href=\"#\" class=\"category-link category-link-1\">News<\/a>","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}