Agni V Missile test launch

[LETHALFORCE]

NATO does not consider India as a missile threat despite the country's advanced missile development program, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on Wednesday.

India is all set up to test its domestically-developed Agni-5 ballistic missile with a range of 5,000 kilometers (3,100 miles), giving it the ability to target most parts of Asia, including the northernmost parts of China, and large parts of Europe.
The three-stage solid-fuel missile will be launched from a site on Wheeler Island in the Bay of Bengal and is expected to reach its target area in southern Indian Ocean.

A successful test of the Agni-5 missile will put India in the elite club of nations having Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles (ICBM), which includes the United States, Russia, China, Britain and France.
Speaking at a news conference at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Rasmussen said the Alliance does not consider India as a threat to NATO allies and territory.



NATO Says India Poses No Missile Threat | Defense | RIA Novosti


the world is really watching it closely....!!

I wonder what the Australians are thinking??

 

[LETHALFORCE]

Agni does not go Mach24 at best it travels at Mach-6 to 8. That itself is huge.

AGNI travels at MACH 13-17.

 

[Godless-Kafir]

Probably the operational system will be pre-targeted.

Yes the missile will be on a targeted path but the instruments will beam back statistical data back to the ground station so any loss of data would mean the test was not successful, even if the missile went through the intended flight path.

 

[The Messiah]

NATO does not consider India as a missile threat despite the country's advanced missile development program, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on Wednesday.

India is all set up to test its domestically-developed Agni-5 ballistic missile with a range of 5,000 kilometers (3,100 miles), giving it the ability to target most parts of Asia, including the northernmost parts of China, and large parts of Europe.
The three-stage solid-fuel missile will be launched from a site on Wheeler Island in the Bay of Bengal and is expected to reach its target area in southern Indian Ocean.

A successful test of the Agni-5 missile will put India in the elite club of nations having Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles (ICBM), which includes the United States, Russia, China, Britain and France.
Speaking at a news conference at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Rasmussen said the Alliance does not consider India as a threat to NATO allies and territory.



NATO Says India Poses No Missile Threat | Defense | RIA Novosti


the world is really watching it closely....!!

The west cant afford to make India its enemy.

Ive been spouting this for ages but people still didn't believe it...time is right to test 15000km ICBM.

 

[Godless-Kafir]

AGNI travels at MACH 13-17.

LF source please.....

 

[H.A.]

A successful test of the Agni-5 missile will put India in the elite club of nations having Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles (ICBM), which includes the United States, Russia, China, Britain and France.
Speaking at a news conference at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Rasmussen said the Alliance does not consider India as a threat to NATO allies and territory.

I always here these five countries only....

 

[LETHALFORCE]

India to test nuclear missile that can hit Beijing – USATODAY.com

India to test nuclear missile that can hit Beijing

The missile could also be used to carry multiple warheads or to launch satellites into orbit.
hope it means MIRV'd?

Even if India's test is deemed a success, the missile will need four or five more trials before it can be inducted into India's arsenal at some point in 2014 or 2015, Bedi said.

few more tests after this

 

[H.A.]

India to test nuclear missile that can hit Beijing – USATODAY.com

India to test nuclear missile that can hit Beijing

The missile could also be used to carry multiple warheads or to launch satellites into orbit.
hope it means MIRV'd?

Even if India's test is deemed a success, the missile will need four or five more trials before it can be inducted into India's arsenal at some point in 2014 or 2015, Bedi said.

few more tests after this

Does it mean that we are weaponising the space...also does it mean we can target and kill enemy satellites?

 

[The Messiah]

India to test nuclear missile that can hit Beijing – USATODAY.com

Fantastic comments in that link

 

[LETHALFORCE]

LF source please.....

http://defenceforumindia.com/forum/strategic-forces/1724-agni-missile-get-multiple-warheads-6.html



It will travel 350 km above the earth, re-enter the atmosphere at a speed of 5 kilometers per second, experiencing temperatures of 3000 degrees centigrade.

But the scientists here are cheerfully confident of repeating last April's success, and proving the missile's ability to deliver a one-and-a-half-ton nuclear bomb to within 100 metres of a target 3000 kilometers away.

And that is routine stuff, compared to what India's Chief Controller of Missiles and Strategic Systems (CC-MSS), Dr VK Saraswat, has divulged to Business Standard.

He says that ASL is now working on new warhead technologies, which will equip the Agni-3 and all future missiles. The new warheads (usually nuclear bombs) will be capable of sneaking through enemy anti-ballistic missile (ABM) defences, fooling enemy radars and dodging enemy missiles.

The Agni's new warheads, says the DRDO, will include five cutting-edge technologies:

They will be multiple warheads (Multiple Independently Targetable Re-entry Vehicles, or MIRVs), with each missile delivering several warheads at the same, or even different, targets. Decoy warheads, which will be fired alongside the genuine warheads, so that enemy's missiles are wasted in attacking decoys, rather than the real warheads. Manoeuvring warheads, which will weave through the atmosphere, dodging enemy missiles that are fired at it. Stealth technologies to make the warheads invisible to enemy radars. Changing warheads' thermal signatures, to confuse the enemy's infrared seekers.

5KM per second
300km per minute
18000km per hour

18,000km per hour
1 mach = 1 225 km/h
18,000/1,225 =MACH 14.69 for AGNI

 

[Dovah]

Fantastic comments in that link

They probably think we're testing a nuke.

 

[Godless-Kafir]

Does it mean that we are weaponising the space...also does it mean we can target and kill enemy satellites?

Bringing down satellites is not a big deal even Agni-2 could do it.

 

[LETHALFORCE]

Any country with a IRBM and and a Kill vehicle can in theory take out satellites.

http://www.popsci.com/technology/ar...g-kill-vehicle-knock-enemy-satellites-out-sky

India Developing 'Kill Vehicle' to Knock Enemy Satellites Out of the Sky

 

[H.A.]

Any country with a IRBM and and a Kill vehicle can in theory take out Low-earth orbit(LEO)
satellites.

Off topic.

In the event of a war which satellite should be attacked for the most tactical advantage, and why?

 

[Godless-Kafir]

5KM per second
300km per minute
18000km per hour

18,000km per hour
1 mach = 1 225 km/h
18,000/1,225 =MACH 14.69 for AGNI

Dude, that is the Re-entry stage not the speed of the missile in booster phase or any other phase. Its only the end phase that is the Re-Entry phase which the rocket can travel at that speed, thanks to the pull of gravity. That is why Re-entry vehicles have an heat shield to with stand this massive friction caused by the atmosphere.

 

[LETHALFORCE]

Off topic.

In the event of a war which satellite should be attacked for the most tactical advantage, and why?

The simple answer is the nation we are fighting. (if they have
built their armed forces network around a GPS system).

 

[LETHALFORCE]

Dude, that is the Re-entry stage not the speed of the missile in booster phase or any other phase. Its only the end phase that is the Re-Entry phase which the rocket can travel at that speed, thanks to the pull of gravity. That is why Re-entry vehicles have an heat shield to with stand this massive friction caused by the atmosphere.

Most ballistic missiles of AGNI's size and weight fly MACH 15+ . USA 'S minutemen
hit speeds of MACH 18+.

The Minuteman III ICBM

 

[H.A.]

The simple answer is the nation we are fighting. (if they have
built their armed forces network around a GPS system).

wouldn't a communications satellite be a better option?

 

[LETHALFORCE]

wouldn't a communications satellite be a better option?

Why you want their people to stop watching cable TV and using cellphones?

 

[H.A.]

Why you want their people to stop watching cable TV?

I mean the satellite which helps its forces to communicate with each other.