Defence-Security Current Affairs January 2015
- India successfully test-fires Agni-5 missile from Wheeler Island off Odisha Coast.
- It is a three stage solid propellant missile having strike range of over 5000 kilometer and capable of carrying nuclear warhead of over one tonne.
- Four Indian Coast Guard vessels commissioned at Mormugao Port of Vasco:
- The launched vessels include two fast patrol vessels namely ICG Amogh and ICG Ameya and two interceptor boats Charlie 413 (C-413) and Charlie 414 (C-414).
- Indigenously-built Light Combat Aircraft Tejas handed over to IAF.