India successfully test-fires nuclear-capable missile that can hit targets from Beijing to Baghdad
Rita Nair
May 8, 2008

It was another success story of Indian engineers performing at their best. According to the country's defense ministry. "India successfully test-fired Wednesday a nuclear-capable missile that can hit targets from Beijing to Baghdad."

The Agni III, a solid-fuel intermediate-range ballistic missile, was launched from Wheeler Island off the eastern state of Orissa, and is capable of carrying up to a 300-kiloton nuclear warhead. The surface-to-surface projectile reached its designated target in 13 minutes and 20 seconds ''traveling through a peak height of 350 kilometers with a velocity of more than 4,000 meters per second.

India is accelerating its arms race with China with disclosure of China's nuclear-submarine base on the Hainan Island in South China Sea. It has come as a wake-up call to defense experts in India, which doesn''t have nuclear-powered submarines armed with nuclear-tipped missiles.

India is diverting major resources to compete with China in nuclear arsenal and delivery systems.

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