Agni V Missile

^^ Lovely pics. With mirv and road mobility, A5 will kick some serious arse.

Thursday, March 11, 2010

EXCLUSIVE: Artist's Impression Of MIRV Warhead On Agni-V

hmmm

http://www.hindu.com/2010/03/12/stor...1259840300.htm

MYSORE: Agni-V, India's version of Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) with a range of more than 5,000 km, will be test-fired by early 2011, according to W. Selvamurthy, Chief Controller, R and D (Life Sciences), Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO).

He was interacting with presspersons here on Thursday on the sidelines of a seminar on Futuristic Food Requirement of the Armed Forces organised by the Defence Food Research Laboratory (DFRL).

Capacity

Dr. Selvamurthy said the DRDO scientists were working on Agni-V which was a three-stage solid fuelled missile and it would have a payload of one to 1.5 tonne and could carry conventional nuclear warhead. “It will address our immediate threat perception and since India has declared and adopted a no-first strike policy, Agni-V will empower the country with the second strike capability,” Dr. Selvamurthy said.

He described Agni as an important missile delivery system. Agni V was a surface-to-surface missile and came very close to qualify as an ICBM. Commenting on Agni-III which was test-fired successfully thrice, Dr. Selvamurthy said it had met all parameters and the armed forces would decide on the actual induction programme.

Major concern

On the development of anti-satellite system and space security imperatives, the DRDO scientist said space security was a major concern but there was no separate anti-satellite programme as such though the DRDO had the core capability of designing and developing such a system if the need arose.

He said the DRDO already had the capacity to deliver such a system based on its earlier missile delivery programmes and all that was required was to modify and transfer this to the requisite format, he added.

Dr. Selvamurthy said the DRDO had visualised future battle and conflict scenario and was gearing to meet the new changes. He said a brain storming session was held recently on Battle Scenario 2020 and it emerged that high intensity conflicts like the World War I and II were pass� as also the Middle Intensity Conflict. He said the country's challenge would be Low Intensity Conflict (LIC) as being witnessed in Jammu and Kashmir, operations against naxalites and counter terrorism operations and hence the DRDO was launching a major initiative to support the LIC in due course through appropriate weapon delivery systems.

While the high-intensity conflicts ended with the two World Wars, the middle intensity conflicts too were an unlikely scenario or had a low probability in view of economic and trade issues and hence future war scenario would be low intensify conflicts, he added.

The other countries were envious of India's high GDP growth bordering on 7.5 per cent to 8 per cent and hence the country had to brace for low intensity conflicts, said Dr. Selvamurthy.

On the nuclear-biological-chemical (NBC) war scenario, Dr. Selvamurthy said the country was prepared to handle it and the Cabinet Committee recently sanctioned an additional 300 crore for developing contingency measures. He pointed out that the standard operating procedure (SOP) of command and control were in place and the guidelines for implementing the SOP were in place in addition to a quick response system.

The DRDO had developed capabilities and contributed to early detection, personal protection, collective protection, de-contamination and rescue operations. He said for aerial monitoring for nuclear devices as also chemical warheads had been developed and for battle field operations, it had developed a portable gas chromatography devise that could detect chemical vapour in the event of a chemical warfare.

Diagnostic kits

It had produced biological field antigen-based diagnostic kits apart from unmanned recce vehicle which would map contaminated zone and a remotely operated vehicle Daksh that had the capacity to diffuse any explosives.

Dr. Selvamurthy said the DRDO had developed a stand alone-stand off detection system, unmanned aerial and ground vehicle mounted with sensors to detect explosives and chemicals among others and welcomed private sector participation in the defence sector.

Yeah read that this morning and the first thing that struck me was the ICBM thing. So far and even now they just mention the "over 5000km" missile. I am sure its an ICBM but it will be tested for 5000kms. What will be interesting is to see to what range they test the missile. If they test if for full range, i am damn bloody sure it will be a 8000km range ICBM.

Well India has been Informally asked By the US to "cap" its Agni range at 5000 - 5500 km.
Since India's minimum credible deterrence is aimed against China why should we make 8000 km range missile .
The first "questions" that would be raised will be by Europe and Russia.

Making A SLBM with 3500 km range AND MIRV (multiple warhead) missiles would raise our technological
standing to a much higher level.

Its all about language. So we tell them it will be a 5000km range missile. We need an ICBM that can be mounted on our subs. a land based test will validate range and other parameters. All that will remain to be done is to develop systems to launch from a sub and with the K 15, we are already working on that.

Is Agni-V end of the series range wise?

Yes, with A5, the Agni series under the IGMP is over. India will continue to now work on other missiles from the experience that India gained from IGMP.

Noobie Question

following the discussion on this thread, what do we expect from newer generation of missiles? is it range? agni does just fine. is it payload? we can carry 1.5 t i believe. accuracy? we have close to 10 CEP i guess?

so what is it that one should look at in terms of new gen missiles..

thanks

Anti ABM capabilities...MIRV......even better CEP ....as with MIRV CEP becomes even more critical...........higher road mobility.......better storage time.........and in case of india ability to be launched from subs......

Your forgetting ASAT weapons.

From the Hints we got from DRDO, it would seem. We are not idle on that field either.

Although no nation will officially admit ASAT weapons or their developments.
With Our security threats no doubt create more than enough reason to have our own

Better mobility. A3 is a pretty heavy missile. So we need to work on that. Make it rail, road mobile. Silo launched. Lots of things need to be done.

Prithvi is an old design. That needs a replacement, so is Agni I. All that has to be considered. Shaurya is a new missile that was not part of the IGMP. It came as a surprise when it was test fired. So obviously everyone is not sitting idle in the missile development department.

I agree that seems to the plan, the Shaurya's Creators are pitching the missile as a replacement ot older Agni models.

The prithvi is already being replaced.

Mobility, better storage, still better CEP can be done as an improvement over the existing already developed systems. i meant when we're talking about newer missiles, is there any technological jump that we are looking?

let me speculate

may be super hypersonic missiles doing Mach 15-20? both BM as well as CM
reducing the size to its miniscule limits? includes weight reduction as well.
stealth missiles? anyone? no radar detection?
more BM-CM missiles like the Shaurya with pin point accuracy?

members can think of more.

Slow down dude, these are top secret developments you are asking about.

WE are working on Hypersonic missiles.

Noticeably the Bhramos-2

and the AD-1 an AD-2 used in our BMD.

As well as other kinestic warhead missiles. Anti sat missiles perhaps ?

WE did not even know about the Shaurya till they told us.
Before then it was just a another ballistic missile.

As far as miniaturization and weigh reduction go, i am sure that's all part of the continual development and improvement.

But i do doubt that missile that can travel at mach 12 plus. it would burn through fuel like a bomb.

Its better to work on High energy lasers or Electromagnetic accelerators at that point. which the US is doing at this moment