India test-fires Agni Prime missile from rail-based mobile platform

India has successfully testfired the AgniPrime missile with a range of 2000 km from a railbased mobile launcher system demonstrating its capability to deploy the missile across the countryA day after the nextgeneration missile was tested Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said on Thursday that it put India in the group of select nations having the capability to launch such a weapon system from the rail networkThe Defence Research and Development Organisation DRDO in collaboration with the Strategic Forces Command SFC carried out the successful launch of the intermediaterange AgniPrime missile under a full operational scenario on Wednesday the defence ministry saidIt has not disclosed the location of the testfiring of the weapon systemThe firstofitskind launch carried out from a specially designed railbased mobile launcher has the capability to move on a rail network without any preconditions and it allows users to have crosscountry mobility and launch within a short reaction time Singh saidThis successful flight test has put India in the group of select nations having capabilities that have developed a canisterised launch system from on the move rail network he said on XIndia has carried out the successful launch of Intermediate Range AgniPrime Missile from a Rail based Mobile launcher system This next generation missile is designed to cover a range up to 2000 km and is equipped with various advanced features The firstofitskind launchhellip pictwittercom00GpGSNOeEmdash Rajnath Singh rajnathsingh September 25 2025The ministry said the missile is equipped with all independent launch capability features including stateoftheart communication systems and protection mechanismsThe missile trajectory was tracked by various ground stations and it was a textbook launch meeting all mission objectives This successful launch will enable futuristic railbased systems induction into services it saidThe launch was witnessed by senior scientists of the DRDO and officers of Strategic Forces CommandThe road mobile variant of AgniPrime has already been inducted into the services after a series of successful flight trialsThe testfiring of the missile came over fourandhalfmonths after the fourday military conflict between India and PakistanEarlier on Tuesday Rajnath Singh highlighted that Indias vision of Aatmanirbhar Bharat was not merely to manufacture for its own needs but to develop capabilities that allow India to become a credible source of advanced technology and highquality products for the worldSingh and his Moroccan counterpart Abdelatif Loudyi jointly inaugurated Tata Advanced Systems Limiteds TASL stateoftheart defence manufacturing facility in Berrechid Morocco on Tuesday Rajnath Singh described the occasion as a historic moment in the evolving strategic partnership between India and MoroccoWith inputs from Agencies