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The Hindu : News / National : Agni II Prime to be tested again

Missile technologists of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) are reaching Wheeler Island off the coast of Orissa for the launch of India's Agni II Prime missile on November 15. The missile will take off from a specially designed truck and, if the flight is successful, it will target an area 3,000 km away in the Bay of Bengal.

The missile engineers are looking forward to the Agni II Prime launch after the successful flights of Shourya, Prithivi-II and Agni-II missiles in the last week of September this year.

However, they are keeping their fingers crossed because the maiden flight of Agni-II Prime in December 2010 had failed. The flight ended abruptly after a problem in the control system of the first stage of the missile, which occurred during the lift-off.

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There is no change in the configuration of the Agni II Prime to be launched on November 15 and the missile that failed last December.

The missile engineers said: "We had a problem last time. We have identified the problem and taken precautions to stabilise the whole system. We have introduced a lot of redundancies to take care of the anomalies that may occur during the flight," they added.

Agni-II Prime is a two-stage surface-to-surface missile that aims at filling the gap in the ranges between Agni-II and Agni-III. While Agni-II can take out targets 2,000 km away, Agni-III can travel a distance of 3,000 km to 3,500 km.

All the three are strategic missiles that can carry nuclear warheads. But test flights like these carry conventional explosives. Agni-II Prime is 20 metres long and weighs 17 tonnes. This time it will carry a warhead weighing 800 kg instead of the normal 1,000 kg. "We are aiming to go for range of 3,000 km this time," a DRDO official said. The Advanced Missile Laboratory, Hyderabad, has designed and developed the missile.

The DRDO has also developed the Agni-V, the most powerful missile in India's arsenal. Agni-V, which will carry a nuclear warhead, can aim at places 5,000 km away. The motors of its three stages have undergone successful tests at a facility at Jagdalpur in Chhattisgarh. Its maiden flight may take place in December 2011 or January/February 2012.
 

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India to test fire Long Range Surface to Air Missile in 2012 - The Economic Times

16 Nov, 2011, 03.56PM IST, PTI
India to test fire Long Range Surface to Air Missile in 2012

NEW DELHI: India will test-fire early next year the 70-km Long Range Surface to Air Missile (LR-SAM), which will help the Navy protect its warships from incoming enemy cruise missiles and fighter aircraft.

The LR-SAM is an over USD 500 million joint venture with Israel.

"The missile will be test-fired by January or February next year in Israel," a senior DRDO official told reporters here.

The missiles will be inducted by the Indian Navy for protecting its warships from incoming enemy cruise missiles and fighter aircraft.

The DRDO official said the missile will be ready to be offered for induction into the armed forces after the completion of eight scheduled test-firings.

He said after the initial test, two to three launches of the missiles will be done in India also.

The missile to be produced under the project will also be provided to the Indian Army for its Medium Range Surface to Air Missile (MR-SAM) requirements.

The range of the missile to be provided to the Army will also be 70 Km.

Meanwhile, during a press conference on the successful test-firing of the Agni-4 missile, DRDO Chief V K Saraswat said the sub-sonic cruise missile Nirbhay will be test-fired in the early part of 2012.

"The missile is being integrated and will be test-fired early next year," he said.

The missile will be second cruise missile in Indian inventory after the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile, which has been developed jointly by India and Russia.
 

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5,000-km range Agni-5 to be test fired in February 2012 - The Economic Times

16 Nov, 2011, 03.49PM IST, PTI
5,000-km range Agni-5 to be test fired in February 2012

NEW DELHI: Buoyed by the successful test- firing of the Agni-4, DRDO will launch the 5,000-km version of the nuclear capable missile after three months as part of strengthening India's deterrence capabilities.

"Agni-V is presently undergoing integration and we may test fire it by the end of February next year. It is right on schedule and the successful test of Agni-4 will prove to be a building block in development of this missile," DRDO Chief V K Saraswat said here today.

Addressing a press conference here, Saraswat talked about India's missiles programme and developing effective deterrence capability against adversaries.

Yesterday, DRDO had successful test fired nuclear capable Agni-4 missile from a test range in Wheeler Island off Odisha coast.

"Agni-4 belongs to DRDO's flagship programme to make the country self-reliant in missile technology. We have now graduated to a higher level of missile technology with more capable versions of the earlier missiles such as Agni-1 and Agni-2," he said.

Talking about Agni-4's capabilities, he said, "Earlier missiles were based on rail mobile launchers which needed an exhaustive infrastructure support. But Agni-4 is based on road mobile launchers. It gives a much higher level of flexibility and is a maintenance free system. It is better in terms of accuracy and performance as well."

This missile is better than previous ones in various parameters such as terminal accuracy, payload delivery capability and also in terms of maintenance and flexible operational deployment, he said.
 

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Eyeing China, India to enter ICBM club in 3 months

The countdown has begun. Within three months, India will gatecrash the super-exclusive ICBM (inter-continental ballistic missile) club, largely the preserve of countries like the US, Russia and China that brandish long-range strategic missiles with strike ranges well beyond 5,500 km.

However, it will become a full-fledged member of the club only when its most ambitious nuclear-capable Agni-V ballistic missile, which will be able to target even northern China if required, becomes fully operational in 2014.

Gung-ho a day after the successful test of the new-generation 3,500-km Agni-IV missile, senior defence scientists on Wednesday declared that Agni-V, with a strike range of over 5,000-km, would be test-fired within the December-February time-frame.

"The three-stage Agni-V is undergoing integration at the moment...it's on schedule," DRDO chief V K Saraswat said, adding that both Agni-IV and V were comparable to the best missiles in their class, including Chinese ones, as far as the technology was concerned. Agni programme director Avinash Chander said his team was "confident" of offering the 17.5-metre-tall Agni-V for induction to the armed forces by 2014. The much-lighter two-stage Agni-IV will be operational by 2013 after two to four more "repeatable" tests.

"Our aim is to take just two to three years from the first test to the induction phase," he said.

Once deployed, the 20-tonne Agni-IV and 50-tonne Agni-V will add the much-needed muscle to India's nuclear deterrence posture against China, which has a huge nuclear and missile arsenal like the 11,200-km Dong Feng-31A ICBM which is capable of hitting any Indian city. With higher accuracy, fast-reaction capability and road mobility, unlike the earlier largely rail-mobile Agni missiles, Agni-IV and V will give India the required operational flexibility against China since they will be capable of being stored and swiftly transported. If launched from the north-east, for instance, they will be able to hit high-value targets deep inside China.

India, however, is not in an arms race or "numbers game" like the US-Soviet rivalry of the Cold War era. "We are not looking at how many missiles China or Pakistan has. With a 'no first-use' nuclear weapons policy, we only want a sufficient number of missiles to defend the country in the event of a crisis. Ours is a defensive-mode strategy, even if others have offensive postures," Saraswat said. The DRDO chief added that "indigenous content" in India's strategic missiles had gone up to such a level, with ring-laser gyros, composite rocket motors, micro-navigation systems and their ilk, that "no technology control regime" could derail them any longer.

Then why not go for missiles that can fly around 10,000 km? DRDO claims that it has the capability to develop such missiles but the government does not want alarm bells to clang around the globe. India, after all, is interested only in "credible minimum deterrence" against the threats it faces. Saraswat said the current focus was on fine-tuning the Agni missiles to defeat anti-ballistic missile systems of potential adversaries. Towards this end, added Chander, the radar and other "signatures" of Agni-IV have been significantly reduced to make them "much more immune to counter-measures".

What will make the Agni missiles even more deadly is the development of MIRV (multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicles) warheads on which the DRDO is working. An MIRV payload on a missile carries several nuclear warheads, which can be programmed to hit different targets. A flurry of such missiles can completely overwhelm BMD ( ballistic missile defence) systems.
 

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Agni-1 (A1) planned to be tested on December 1, 2011 by personnel of Strategic Forces Command (SFC). The test will be conducted from the Wheeler Island launching complex at the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur in Odisha.

A defense scietist told Indian Express, "There were considerable improvements in its re-entry technology and manoeuvrability since Agni's first trial. This test will reconfirm the technical parameters set for the Army," said a defence scientist.

A missile will be randomly picked from a lot of limited stock production (LSP) missiles for the trial.
 

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ndia on Thursday successfully test-fired its nuclear capable Agni-I strategic ballistic missile, with a strike range of 700 km, as part of the Army's user trial from the test range at Wheeler Island off Odisha coast.

India on Thursday successfully test-fired its nuclear capable Agni-I strategic ballistic missile, with a strike range of 700 km, as part of the Army's user trial from the test range at Wheeler Island off Odisha coast.

"The indigenously developed surface-to-surface, single-stage missile,powered by solid propellants, was test fired from a mobile launcher at about 0925 hrs from launch pad-4 of the Integrated Test Range," defence sources said.
 

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Agni-1 Ballistic Missile Tested Successfully

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2011

The AGNI A1-06 was successfully flight tested from Wheeler Island today at 0930 hrs by the Indian Army. The missile was launched from a Road Mobile Launcher System and reached the target point in the Bay of Bengal. The missile was tracked by radar and telemetry stations located along the coastline. Two Naval Ships located near the target point tracked the missile in the terminal phase of the flight. The missile, indigenously developed by DRDO, is already in the arsenal of Indian Armed Forces.
 

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Agni-I missile test-fired

India today successfully test-fired its nuclear capable Agni-I strategic ballistic missile, with a strike range of 700 km, as part of the Army's user trial from the test range at Wheeler Island off Odisha coast.

"The indigenously developed surface-to-surface, single-stage missile, powered by solid propellants, was test fired from a mobile launcher at about 0925 hrs from launch pad-4 of the Integrated Test Range," defence sources said.

Describing the trial as successful, a senior official said it met the mission objectives.

The Strategic Force Command (SFC) of the Army, as part of their training exercise, executed the trial with logistic support provided by Defence Research Development Organisation (DRDO) at the ITR, a DRDO official said.

Agni-I missile has a specialised navigation system which ensures it reaches the target with a high degree of accuracy, he said.

The trajectory of the missile, which has an operational strike range of 700 km, was tracked by sophisticated radars and electro-optic telemetry stations located along the sea coast and ships positioned near the impact point in the downrange area.

Weighing 12 tonnes, the 15-metre-long Agni-I, which can carry payloads up to 1000 kg, has already been inducted into the Indian Army.

Read Full Article: http://www.dailypioneer.com/pioneer-news/top-story/24534-agni-i-missile-test-fired.html

Edit: Apologies the news has already been posted above.
 

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BRAHMOS successfully test fired from frigate Teg

BRAHMOS successfully test fired from frigate Teg - Brahmand.com
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BRAHMOS successfully test fired from frigate Teg



MOSCOW (BNS): Test launch of the BRAHMOS supersonic cruise missile was carried out successfully from the Indian frigate Teg at Baltic Sea on Wednesday, a media report said.

According to Itar-Tass, the missile was fired from the ship's bow flew along the preset trajectory and reached the destination in the target area. Telemetric data indicated that all of its systems worked properly.

The missile was launched from the first of the three frigates being built by the Kaliningrad-based shipyard Yantar for the Indian Navy.

In July 2007, Russia and India signed a $1.6 billion contract for the construction of a series of Project 11356 frigates for the Indian Navy.

The new frigates namely 'Teg', 'Teer' and 'Trikand' are follow ons of the three Talwar Class warships built for India by Russia and inducted into service around the early part of the decade.

In the new ships, the Russian-origin Klub missiles would be replaced by the indigenous BRAHMOS missiles.

"Three Project 11356 frigates are being built for the Indian Navy at Russia's Yantar Baltic Shipbuilding Plant. The first one will begin performance and dockside tests soon," Itar-Tass quoted Alexander Maksichev, managing co-director of the joint venture as saying.

BRAHMOS cruise missile has already been inducted in the Indian Army and Navy while the air-launched version it set to be test-flown next year.
 

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N-tipped Dhanush set for fresh trial

N-tipped Dhanush set for fresh trial
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BALASORE (ODISHA):
In a bid to add more firepower to the armed forces and strengthen its sea attacks, India is contemplating to conduct a user specific trial of ship-launched nuclear capable missile Dhanush off the Odisha coast.

The missile, a naval version of Prithvi ballistic
missile, has been planned to be test-fired from a
warship offshore the Integrated Test Range at
Chandipur coast shortly.
As part of a secret mission 'Operation Sankalpa',
the Strategic Forces Command will carry out the
test besides a fresh trial of Prithvi-II missile.
Defence sources said elaborate arrangements
were on for the Dhanush and P-II test. "The test
will be conducted by the naval personnel to
gauge the effectiveness of the indigenously built
anti-ship missile," an official told The Sunday
Standard.
He said the test was aimed to study the control
and guidance system of the missile and its other
parameters besides providing training to the user
—the navy. The exercise could make the missile
more acceptable and a successful test would
pave the way for its induction.
Dhanush, which is produced by the DRDO, has a
striking range of 250-350 km and can carry single
warhead up to 500 kg. Unlike the Prithvi, its
landlubber sibling, the missile will be fired at best
from an unwieldy launch pad.
Defence planners have visualised two variants of
the Dhanush. While one will have a range of 250
km, the other will have a capability to hit targets
500 km away. Scientists also have planned to
acquire a reach of 500 km through this missile by
mounting a lighter warhead.
Part of India's Integrated Guided Missile
Development Programme, Dhanush is about
8.53 metres in length and 0.9 metre in diameter
besides its launch weight of about 4.4 tonnes.
This single stage missile uses liquid propellant. It
can be used as an anti-ship weapon as well as for
destroying land targets depending on the range.
However, before the Dhanush trial, India's first
carrier-borne naval fighter Light Combat Aircraft
Tejas will take to the skies. DRDO Chief V K
Saraswat said that the aircraft would go for its
maiden flight in the last week of December.
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http://www.expressbuzz.com/thesundaystandard/n-tipped-dhanush-set-for-fresh-trial/342151.html
 
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I think they are
experimenting with a light anti
ship warhead and seeker here,
for later modified use on
prithvi-1 as a desi 1200km range
x 500kg warhead x Mach10+ ballistic DF21ASBM
 

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they modified dhanush to be used as a anti-ship missile because their earlier aim was to develop a sea to land missile. this is a crucial development as a missile capable of attacking land and sea based target compensate its large size and thus dual acting missile will save multiplicity of missile system.

good customization and creative thinking on part of drdo.

moreover its a season of antiship balistic missile, as the other asian powers are developing it.
 

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more and more i think about it, more i am convinced that it can be done, specially if you know how brahmos missile works, just before it reach its target. Already we PAD do this kind of stuff while going up.
 

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India: In march, twin tests of submarine launched ballistic missile (SLBM)

India: In march, twin tests of submarine launched ballistic missile (SLBM)

BALASORE: The DRDO is preparing for twin tests of submarine launched ballistic missile (SLBM) K-15 from an underwater platform off the Andhra Pradesh coast. While the first test has been scheduled for March 4, the second test will be conducted anytime between March 16 and 19.

Sources at the defence base at Chandipur here said preparations are on for the proposed tests near the Visakhapatnam coast for over a fortnight now. The indigenously built nuclear capable missile will be launched from a Pontoon (replica of a submarine) which is being readied under the sea.

A defence official said along with the missile assembling team, several other technical teams including� the wings of Electro Optical Tracking System (EOTS) and communication and range safety from the Integrated Test Range (ITR) are busy in preparations for a smooth and successful test of the missile which has a strike range of 700 km.


"We are forced to use the pontoon as the launching platform as India does not have an operational submarine to test-fire such missiles. Though the advanced technology vehicle (ATV) INS Arihant has been developed, it is yet to be equipped with the K-15 missile. Missile tests from the submarine can be possible after the success of sea trials," he said.

Developed by DRDO, K-15 has both the versions, SLBM and SLCM (submarine-launched cruise missile). While the cruise missile is a loose trajectory missile guided to its destination by an onboard computer, its ballistic version has a high-trajectory and transcends the atmosphere to re-enter from above the targeted site.

This K-15 missile is, in fact, an advanced clone of naval version of Prithvi and designed to be exclusively launched from a submarine. The missile can be compared with the Tomahawk missile of the US. The Navy has reportedly been insisting on the K-15's cruise variant as it is hard to be obstructed and has pinpoint accuracy.

"Cruise missiles are more difficult to detect and hence less vulnerable to anti-missile defence system, which can track and destroy ballistic missiles with comparative ease," said a defence scientist.

After the K-15 tests, India will go for the much-awaited maiden test of 5,000-km range Agni-V missile, which has been scheduled for the third week of April.
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Sourc-- DRDO Readies for K-15 - South India - Orissa - ibnlive
 

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This K-15 missile is, in fact, an advanced clone of naval version of Prithvi and designed to be exclusively launched from a submarine. The missile can be compared with the Tomahawk missile of the US. The Navy has reportedly been insisting on the K-15's cruise variant as it is hard to be obstructed and has pinpoint accuracy.
Cruise missile variant of k-15? That could very well be nirbhay, packaged as a new version of an old missile. The question is what is the seeker and the jet engine, and where is it being developed.
 

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