Agni-5 & India's MIRV Capability
India's drive to put MIRVs on its longest-range ballistic missile - multiple warheads on a single missile, each steered to a separate target - reached a public milestone with Mission Divyastra in March 2024, the first flight test of an indigenously developed Agni-5 carrying MIRV technology. In May 2026 DRDO went a step further, flight-testing an Advanced Agni missile whose MIRV system released several payloads against targets spread across a wide stretch of the Indian Ocean Region. Between them the two trials mark a shift from proving that MIRV works to sharpening independent multi-target strike, a capability only a handful of nuclear powers hold.
- Agni-5
- MIRV
- Mission Divyastra
- DRDO
- Advanced Agni
- ballistic missile
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