For defence purposes, India started missile development programme in 1983 and the responsibility to implement this was given to defence research and development organisation (DRDO). India has been achieving in missile development, and through this India has achieved both technical and strategic development mentioned in missile development programme. Today, India has long-distance and medium-distance missiles namely Agni and Prithvi respectively.
Agni has three versions, viz. Agni I, Agni II and Agni III which can face the attack ranging from 700-5000 km. Prithvi is short distance ballistic missile. Regarding targeting, capacity and use of technology it stands among the main missiles in the world. Besides these in India a lot of developed missiles have been made and tested successfully. Among these Trishul and Akash are short and long-distance missiles moving from ground to air respectively. Nag (anti-tank),
Dhanush (Navel Missile) and Ashtra (air to air targeting) etc. are the main missiles of India. India and Russia together have made Supersonic Cruise Missile, Brahmos, which is based on the modern technology. India is developing an inter-continental ballistic missile “Surya”. In this way India has achieved success regarding missile technology and undoubtedly today India is considered as one of the important nations of the world.