New Delhi: India has successfully launched its Agni Prime missile from a rail-based mobile launcher, marking a first-of-its-kind test in the country’s missile programme. The weapon, with a strike range of up to 2,000 km, was fired from a train pulled by an Indian Railways locomotive. With this launch, India joined an elite group of nations — Russia, the United States, and China — that possess the capability to fire railcar-based intercontinental ballistic missiles.

“This successful test has put India in a group of select nations that have developed canisterised-launch systems from on-the-move rail networks,” Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said. He described the achievement as groundbreaking, noting that “the first-of-its-kind launch was carried out from a specially-designed, rail-based mo

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