India possesses a swarm of air assets as well as missiles which add to India’s mighty defence system.

With Agni 1, Agni II, Agni III and Agni IV already in its flotilla, India on 19 April 2012, test fired Agni V which is an intercontinental ballistic missile. Designed and developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), the three-stage missile has a strike range of 5,000 km.

The surface-to-surface missile Agni-V can be launched from land-based mobile platform and has the capability of hitting multiple targets.

It is expected that Agni-V will be operational by 2014 to 2015 after four to five repeatable tests by the DRDO.