India Successfully Test-Fires Agni-5 Ballistic Missile Amid Border Tensions With China

A staffer cleans Akash, a medium-range mobile surface-to-air missile defense system developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), on the second day of the 5-day Aero India airshow at the Yelahanka Air Force Station in Bangalore on Feb. 21, 2019. Manjunath Kiran/AFP/Getty Images

India on Oct. 27 successfully test-fired its Agni-5 surface-to-surface ballistic missile, which is capable of striking targets at ranges of up to 3,100 miles with a “very high degree of accuracy,” officials said.

The missile, which uses a three-stage solid-fuel engine, was launched at approximately 7:50 p.m. local time from APJ Abdul Kalam Island, in Odisha. The island is roughly 93 miles east of the state capital, Bhubaneswar.