Agni-VI Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM)

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sir lot in your post is cryptic, but the under ICBM part is also not acceptable. Plus we already have re entry tech it was shown in civilian as well as military programme.

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If you yourself is not convinced about ICBM part, world will not accept it.
but those in the business knows what has been achieved.
Yes, sir. Fully agree with that. Those in the business know already what has been achieved.
 

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Israel reportedly has 200+ nuclear weapons,(4th biggest arsenal more than UK) you never hear about them.
We should maintain the same secrecy around our program and numbers and capability.
yeah LF let the enemy keep on guessing what we can do and what we cant.
 

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If AGNI 5 is a true ICBM, what is its actual range with max payload...........?

Please bring in some facts about max payload and Max range of Agni 5 with comparison of the same.........
 

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No one who knows will tell you the true range. Why bother asking. Just compare with equivalent missiles (Topol-M etc) and you can make an educated guess.
 

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AGNI VI: EYE ON WORLD
Published February 28, 2013 | By admin

SOURCE: RANESH RAJAN FOR MY TAKE /IDRW.ORG


What does American Minuteman III, Russian RT-2UTTKh Topol-M or Chinese Dongfeng-41 Intercontinental ballistic missile have in common?? , they all have the ability to hit targets in excess of more than 10000 km and give there respected countries ability to hit any country in the World , India will be among few elite countries who will soon have this capability when Agni-VI will be ready .

Agni-VI when compared to other missiles in its class will match in dimensions and weight but still range mentioned is just 6000 km rather then 10-12000 km. Does Indian missile really lack range? Or have terrible engines with higher fuel consumption!!! .

In public and in media Indian missile ranges mentioned is always effective range rather than Maximum range like mentioned by other countries, for example BrahMos from its first launch carried 290km range tag and it took more than a decade for BrahMos chief to accept that 290km is not the maximum range has told in media but he never went onto mention the real range of the missile.

Similar mention of 5000 km range on Agni-V was quickly dismissed by Chinese experts and western experts after first successful test flight Agni-V has "under quoted ", and Chinese expert went on and claimed Agni-V should have range of 8000km. so what could be range of Agni VI then ?

As per media reports Agni VI will be sleeker than the Agni-V and will have capability of carrying at least 10 nuclear warheads which will be capable of targeting multiple targets at the same time. Agni VI will also be India's first missile with Multiple Independently Targetable Re-entry Vehicle (MIRV) capability, what is also interesting is that Agni-VI will weight almost 10 tonnes more than Agni-V but will have coverage of only 6000 km over Agni V's Claimed range of 5000 km?

Agni-VI according to experts will have range of around 10000 to 12000 km which will give India world coverage and capability to hit any country. Under mentioning of missile range must be to keep western media and politicians from ringing alarm bells over Indian missiles development and to avoid political pressure to stop development of missiles, work on Agni-VI begun even when testing and development phase of Agni V is yet to be completed. Agni VI will also lay foundation for development of SLBM based on Agni VI which will be a Game changer for India.


http://idrw.org/?p=19192
 

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Agni vi: Eye on world

What does American Minuteman III, Russian RT-2UTTKh Topol-M or Chinese Dongfeng-41 Intercontinental ballistic missile have in common?? , they all have the ability to hit targets in excess of more than 10000 km and give there respected countries ability to hit any country in the World , India will be among few elite countries who will soon have this capability when Agni-VI will be ready .

Agni-VI when compared to other missiles in its class will match in dimensions and weight but still range mentioned is just 6000 km rather then 10-12000 km. Does Indian missile really lack range? Or have terrible engines with higher fuel consumption!!! .

In public and in media Indian missile ranges mentioned is always effective range rather than Maximum range like mentioned by other countries, for example BrahMos from its first launch carried 290km range tag and it took more than a decade for BrahMos chief to accept that 290km is not the maximum range has told in media but he never went onto mention the real range of the missile.

Similar mention of 5000 km range on Agni-V was quickly dismissed by Chinese experts and western experts after first successful test flight Agni-V has "under quoted ", and Chinese expert went on and claimed Agni-V should have range of 8000km. so what could be range of Agni VI then ?

As per media reports Agni VI will be sleeker than the Agni-V and will have capability of carrying at least 10 nuclear warheads which will be capable of targeting multiple targets at the same time. Agni VI will also be India's first missile with Multiple Independently Targetable Re-entry Vehicle (MIRV) capability, what is also interesting is that Agni-VI will weight almost 10 tonnes more than Agni-V but will have coverage of only 6000 km over Agni V's Claimed range of 5000 km?

Agni-VI according to experts will have range of around 10000 to 12000 km which will give India world coverage and capability to hit any country. Under mentioning of missile range must be to keep western media and politicians from ringing alarm bells over Indian missiles development and to avoid political pressure to stop development of missiles, work on Agni-VI begun even when testing and development phase of Agni V is yet to be completed. Agni VI will also lay foundation for development of SLBM based on Agni VI which will be a Game changer for India.

AGNI VI: EYE ON WORLD
 
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Length of 40 meterICBM is pure BS then they talking about it's submarine version. This news doesn't hold water. Possibly this can be ASAT weapon but not ICBM of just 10K km range.
As on member on another forum suggested, the journo who gave this 40M figure is bongu and he actually meant 14 not 40.

Bongus have problem with ther phas according to this member.

if not, then I suspect this news quoting 40 M figure was part of Misinformation campaign

On Topic> A 6 will be 20 M long and have 2 M diameter according to a news in The Hindu.

Agni-VI all set to take shape
 

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Agni-VI missile in the works, India to be in world's elite nuclear club

India today said it is developing a long-range nuclear-capable Agni-VI ballistic missile that would carry multiple warheads allowing one weapon system to take out several targets at a time.

"Agni-V is a major strategic defence weapon. Now we want to make Agni-VI which would be a force multiplier," DRDO chief V K Saraswat said here.

Refusing to divulge the range of the new under-development missile, he said the force multiplier capability of the missile would be because of its Multiple Independently Targetable Re-entry Vehicle (MIRV) capability.

The Agni-5 ballistic missile, which was test-fired in April last year, has a range of upto 5,500 kms and it is believed that the Agni-6 would have a range longer than its predecessor.

"It will have force multiplier capability by the MIRV approach which would enable us to deliver many payloads at the same time using only one missile. Work is on in this area and designs have been completed. We are now in the hardware realisation phase," he said.

DRDO officials said once the Agni-6 is developed, it would propel India into the elite club of nations with such a capability including the US and Russia.

The DRDO chief said his organisation was also working towards developing a cruise missile defence programme which would enable the armed forces to defend against low-flying cruise missiles and enemy aircraft.
 
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Re: Agni-VI missile in works, India to be in world's elite Nuclear Clu

I hope there is substantial increase of range from Agni V. At the very least, it it should have a range of 7000 km.
 

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Re: Agni-VI missile in works, India to be in world's elite Nuclear Clu

GoI capped it at 5000 and forbade DRDO to go further. I guess Agni-VI would be a leaner meaner MIRV ICBM with same 5000 range.

I hope there is substantial increase of range from Agni V. At the very least, it it should have a range of 7000 km.
 

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Re: Agni-VI missile in works, India to be in world's elite Nuclear Clu

GoI capped it at 5000 and forbade DRDO to go further. I guess Agni-VI would be a leaner meaner MIRV ICBM with same 5000 range.
There is no such cap. In an earlier article, it was stated that Agni-VI would have a 500km range increase.
(I'll try to find that article.)

EDIT: Oh, there are actually plenty of other sources that claim that the new missile will have a range of 6000 km- just search Google. Even the first post in this thread says it will have a 500 km increased range:
http://defenceforumindia.com/forum/...-intercontinental-ballistic-missile-icbm.html


I personally feel its a little silly to have a new missile and only add 500 km (MIRV or no-MIRV), but hey, this is DRDO we're talking about here...
 
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Re: Agni-VI missile in works, India to be in world's elite Nuclear Clu

Well original plan was to have A5 with MIRV and cold launch from canister. Now it appears that after launching A5 with just under 5500 km range, they have change of plan and now A6 with MIRV with slightly higher range. Some report also says that present DRDO Chief V K Saraswat who is about to be retire didnt get extension because of this A6 among other reasons (failed to deliver some of other projects in time).

It appears that something is cooking lets see what GOI do on this.
 

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Re: Agni-VI missile in works, India to be in world's elite Nuclear Clu

@Yusuf
But none of the official sources state that.
 
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