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India's Nuclear-Capable Agni-5 Ballistic Missile Aces Test Launch
space.com ^ | January 18, 2018 05:05pm ET | Tariq Malik,

Posted on 01/22/2018 8:56:45 PM PST by BenLurkin

...Agni-5, launched Thursday morning from a road-mobile launcher based on Abdul Kalam Island in India's eastern state of Odisha, Indian defense ministry officials said. The missile, which can carry a nuclear warhead, flew about 3,000 miles (4,800 kilometers) in 19 minutes...

"All objectives of the mission have been successfully met," defense ministry officials said. "This successful test of Agni-5 reaffirms the country's indigenous missile capabilities and further strengthens our credible deterrence."

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: agni5; ballistic; india; nuclear

1 posted on 01/22/2018 8:56:45 PM PST by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

Amusing that India, China and Iran spend huge amounts of money and time on nuclear weapons and missiles but simply have been unable to build and staff the nuclear power plants they have planned to build. They continue to suffer from electricity shortages and pollute mightily to generate what they have.


2 posted on 01/22/2018 9:12:43 PM PST by allendale (.)
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To: BenLurkin

Other than “throw weight”, what makes any missile “nuclear capable”?


3 posted on 01/22/2018 9:24:04 PM PST by doorgunner69 (Give me the liberty to take care of my own security..........)
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To: BenLurkin
Why don't they next test it on Delhi? Maybe, Calcutta, exchange a few with Pakistan.

The US should cut off all aid and trade with India, just as we should Pakistan and China. These are an axis of enemies that we have funded and enabled to become 3rd world sh1tholes with nuclear weapons.

4 posted on 01/22/2018 9:24:20 PM PST by Reno89519 (PRESIDENT TRUMP, KEEP YOUR PROMISES! NO AMNESTY AND BUILD THAT WALL.)
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To: Reno89519

India is much more of a threat to Red China than to the US.


5 posted on 01/22/2018 9:29:12 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Both are infesting the US with spies. Ruining the US with the backward cultures, tribal mores, and cheap labor. The US needs to look long term and realize we are building up our enemies, two countries that are not allies, who will stab us in the back when the time is right.


6 posted on 01/22/2018 9:33:25 PM PST by Reno89519 (PRESIDENT TRUMP, KEEP YOUR PROMISES! NO AMNESTY AND BUILD THAT WALL.)
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To: Reno89519; BenLurkin

You need to update your India research. India has not received or needed foreign aid from US in decades. And the economy in India has been growing 3 times faster than US during Obama’s 8 years who was elected by some Americans who have no clue how economy works. Thanks to Trump, now the Indian economy is growing only twice as fast as US.


7 posted on 01/22/2018 9:48:36 PM PST by entropy12 (30 Million low wealth, low skill LEGAL chain migrants in 25 years is 60 times greater than DACA)
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To: Reno89519

Bro, put the pipe down. :)

India is in an axis against us?

Why? Because big corporations and congress LET cheap work come here?

And how the #### did you tie them in with Pakistan and China?!?!! :)


8 posted on 01/22/2018 9:51:58 PM PST by dp0622 (The Left should know that if Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: BenLurkin

Reminds me of the Marx Brothers song in “Duck Soup”

We got guns, they got guns,
All God’s children have guns
We’re gonna walk all over the battlefield
because all God’s children have guns

Now it’s “we got nukes, they got nukes...”

Much scarier than guns!

It is what it is.


9 posted on 01/22/2018 9:53:33 PM PST by dp0622 (The Left should know that if Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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10 posted on 01/22/2018 10:12:50 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

ROFL!!!!!!!!!!!!!

“Good Heavens you can’t go with your trousers up!”

“Well they’ll never catch me any other way!”

I have EVERY Marx Brothers movie and know some other guys my age (49) who really love them.

They are timeless.

It’s the movie in my laptop right now :)


11 posted on 01/22/2018 10:15:47 PM PST by dp0622 (The Left should know that if Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: dp0622

Have you ever been to India, Pakistan, and China? I have.


12 posted on 01/23/2018 1:59:36 AM PST by Reno89519 (PRESIDENT TRUMP, KEEP YOUR PROMISES! NO AMNESTY AND BUILD THAT WALL.)
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To: Reno89519

I have been to many countries in Europe and I can definitively say that being there gave me no clue to the government’s goings-on or whether they were alliances or enemies. Saying you were there doesn’t say much


13 posted on 01/23/2018 2:17:57 PM PST by dp0622 (The Left should know that if Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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