NEW DELHI, May 17: India would test-fire its 3,000km longest range Surface to Surface missile Agni III by the year end, PTI said on Tuesday quoting a senior defence official. The country has also started induction of the short and intermediate range Agni I and Agni II versions in the newly-raised strategic command, Dr M. Natrajan, defence adviser to the Indian prime minister said.

“Development of Agni III missile is on schedule and it would fly by the year end,” Dr Natrajan said in a presentation made at the DRDO technology day awards function here in the presence of the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. DRDO has put off tests of the wholly solid Agni III missiles twice.