India’s new missile powered by Israeli technology. India has successfully test-fired a missile it claims is ‘domestically developed’ capable of carrying multiple nuclear warheads for the first time, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Monday.
Modi said he was “proud” the launch of “the first flight test of indigenously developed Agni-5 missile with Multiple Independently Targetable Reentry Vehicle (MIRV) technology”, in comments on social media platform X.
India’s new missile powered by Israeli technology
The MIRV technology enables the Agni-5 to carry several nuclear warheads at once, so they can split up and hit different targets. Modi did not give further details of the launch, but India has previously test-fired multiple Agni-5 missiles, developed by India’s Defence Research and Development Organisation.
Israel denies having nuclear technology, however, it has multiple warheads and missiles capable of carrying a nuclear payload, including multiple nuclear warheads. As is with all Israeli technology, details of the projects are vague and secretive.
Multiple nuclear warheads
Analysts have suggested it is made using Israeli technology that was given to India and Israeli personal have helped develop it. So far India has denied any of these questions and allegations and has tried to distance itself from the genocidal regime in Tel Aviv.
Minister of Defence Rajnath Singh said on X that India had “joined the select group of nations” capable of the missile technology. Agni, meaning “fire” in Sanskrit, is the name given to a series of rockets India developed as part of a guided missile development project launched in 1983.
India has deepened defence cooperation with Western countries in recent years, including in the Quad alliance with the Israel, United States, Japan and Australia.
The international community is concerned with India’s human rights violations and its new law to kerb the freedoms of Kashmiri muslims, has led to some on social media to suggest, India is preparing its own genocidal acts in Kashmir, similar to Israel.