Equipped to build longest range missile: DRDO

BANGALORE:  Basking in the glory of their recent success in missile launches, the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has claimed that it have all the necessary elements to build the longest range missile, but that would be determined by “threat”.Speaking after the launch of the “Identification of Friend or Foe” (IFF) System to be integrated into the Airborne Early Warning and Control (AEW&C) aircraft, DRDO Chief V K Saraswat said: “Today we have all the building blocks to make the longest range missile in the world. But this will be based upon the threat.”He said preventive action they had demonstrated was to show that they had the technology.Portraying their capabilities, he said Agni V missile could also double up as a satellite launcher.  “We can put in space light weight satellites, meant for lower orbits and their endurance limits small,” he said.