NEW DELHI — India plans to test launch the Agni V nuclear-capable, long-range missile in February 2012. The Agni V is designed to hit a target up to 5,000 km (3,100 mi.) away. Scientists at the Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) say the missile should be inducted into service by 2014. “It is right on schedule, and the successful test of Agni IV will prove to be a building block in development of this missile,” DRDO chief V.K. Saraswat says, referring to the successful flight of the Agni IV on Nov. 15 (Aerospace DAILY, Nov. 16).

NEW DELHI — India is laying out proposals that would facilitate innovation and develop the country’s defense industry. For the first time, the defense ministry has been involved with India’s Planning Commission in the creation of its latest Five-Year Plan, which covers from April 2012 onward.

NEW DELHI — India on Nov. 15 test fired the Agni IV long-range, nuclear-capable missile from a military base in the eastern part of the country, rebounding from a 2010 test failure. Under Project Director Tessy Thomas, the first female scientist to head a large missile project in India, the Agni IV was launched from a road mobile system at around 9 a.m. local time from Wheeler Island, off the coast of the state of Orissa.