{"id":50903,"date":"2019-11-17T15:08:18","date_gmt":"2019-11-17T07:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=50903"},"modified":"2019-11-17T15:18:39","modified_gmt":"2019-11-17T07:18:39","slug":"india-successfully-test-fires-night-trial-of-surface-to-surface-medium-range-missile-agni-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=50903","title":{"rendered":"India Successfully Test-Fires Night Trial Of Surface-To-Surface Medium-Range Missile Agni-II"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>NEW DELHI, Nov 17 (NNN-PTI) &#8211; India successfully conducted first night trial of its versatile surface-to-surface medium-range nuclear-capable missile Agni-II, from a test range in its eastern state of Odisha, state-run broadcaster, All India Radio (AIR) said Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The trial was carried out Saturday night, by the strategic forces command of Indian army, with logistic support from the country&#8217;s Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This was the first time that the sophisticated missile was test-fired at night,&#8221; the broadcaster said. &#8220;The entire trajectory of the trial was tracked by a battery of sophisticated radars, telemetry observation stations, electro-optic instruments and two naval ships, located near the impact point in the down-range area of the Bay of Bengal,&#8221; it added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Agni-II, an intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM), has already been inducted into the armed forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The two-stage ballistic missile can carry a payload of 1,000 kg over a distance of 2,000 km.&#8211; NNN-PTI  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI, Nov 17 (NNN-PTI) &#8211; India successfully conducted first night trial of its versatile surface-to-surface medium-range nuclear-capable missile Agni-II, from a test range in its eastern state of Odisha, state-run broadcaster, All India Radio (AIR) said Sunday. The trial was carried out Saturday night, by the strategic forces command of Indian army, with logistic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":50905,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,286],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50903"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/50905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}