The Strategic Forces Command successfully conducted the user trial of Agni Missile A-I at Chandipur at Sea near Balasore in Orissa at 10.35 this morning. The performance parameters of the 700 km range missile were as expected and the desired objectives have been met.
The earlier version of the Agni Missile (Agni-I) is a single stage, solid fuel, road and rail mobile, short-range ballistic missile (SRBM). It was the successor to the prototype "Agni-TD". It is propelled by solid fuel, giving it a shallow re-entry angle and manoeuvering RV body-lift aerodynamics gives it the ability to correct trajectory errors and reduce thermal stresses.
The MRV has a velocity correction package to correct launch trajectory variances. Some Agni RV versions use a set of solid fuelled thruster cartridges of predetermined impulse, allowing the onboard guidance controller to trim velocity, using discrete combination of impulse quantum along desired spatial orientation.