India test-fires advanced multiple warheads Agni missile

10 MAY 2026

India has successfully test-fired an advanced Agni missile with the strategic ability to deploy multiple payloads to separate targets simultaneously — a milestone that places the country among a select league of global powers.
The testing of the missile with Multiple Independently Targeted Re-Entry Vehicle (MIRV) system was carried out from Odisha’s A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Island, under ‘Mission Divyastra’.
The MIRV feature ensures that a single missile can deploy multiple warheads at different locations simultaneously.
The missile was flight-tested with multiple payloads, targeted to different targets spatially distributed over a large geographical area in the Indian Ocean Region, the Ministry added.
While the Ministry said the flight test of an advanced Agni missile with MIRV was carried out, authoritative sources said it was an Agni-5 missile and the trial was conducted to check the MIRV technology under ‘Mission Divyastra’.