[9] With 4,000 km range,[10] it is capable of striking targets in nearly all of mainland China, if launched from northeastern part of India.

The missile system is equipped with modern and compact avionics with redundancy to provide a high level of reliability.

The indigenous-built ring laser gyroscope is used in the high accuracy with Micro Inertial Navigation System (MINGS), which complement each other as a redundancy.

Dr Vijay Kumar Saraswat, Scientific Advisor to Raksha Mantri, Secretary, Department of Defence R&D and Director General DRDO, who witnessed the launch, congratulated all the scientists and employees of DRDO and the Armed Forces for the successful launch of AGNI-IV.

Sri Avinash Chander, Chief Controller (Missiles & Strategic Systems), DRDO and Programme Director of AGNI, while addressing the scientists after the launch, called it as a new era in the modern Long Range Navigation System in India.

The radar cross-section and other detectable signatures of Agni-IV have been significantly reduced to make them much more immune to counter-measures.