If there were no Nuclear subs coming for us we should have gone for long range missiles but with at least 5-6 nuclear subs in near future no part of world is out of reach in future.(in case they try something funny). Moreover we are already working (rumored) for something having bigger range . But Agni 5 is our priority as its very critical requirement .
Agni 3 is yet to be inducted and its range is only 3500 kms and with slight reduction payload range can be increased but still whole china will not be under its range . Biggest thing with AGni 5 will be MIRV . it can have multiple warhead on same missile . ie better return of money and a single missile can cause more damage.
Ok, I didn't know Agni-V will be coming with MIRV.
There are lot of reasons to go for A5 except better range than A3.
well we must have something to target the biggest threat to humanity-USA who is playing double game with us for the last 63 years.china developed its first icbm in late 1970s even though it had on two formidable enemies-india & ussr at that time.even indira gandhi sanctioned a project secretly to develop an icbm in early 1970's(which later failed).the service chiefs regularly makes sentence in tv interviews to transform indian armed forces into a capability based force rather than a threat based force but we still are preocuppied with sino-pak phobia and ignore the biggest rogue state of all -usawhom should be attack with 12000KM range missile?
A very pertinent question
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Like APJK said "Strength Respects Strength"! We dont need ICBMs to harm anyone but the west only understand the language of power and dominance. To have them under our Radar would only win them over as an Ally and i dont think we would become enemies! Its just to prove an point that they cant play with us too much and we deserve respect and not philanthropy(Which they seldom do in Africa). For all the hog wash of Compassionate West they typically dont respect poverty.
But we already have them lined up on Indias shores. P5 leaders visited one after the other and we dont even have an Agni III yet working and deployed.
so is it better to zero weapons to target them ? can anyone give guarantee about them ?
You know what is the biggest weapon for india against the US? Indias Economy.
i agree with you but i want to say that we must have enough detterent against any poweful nation.we must not be so self contentended with agni-5 that we put the surya icbm project in backburner for unlimited period of time.we must learn from our own history that foreign invaders have invaded and looted our civilization many a times when we were very rich.our great emperors have always put very little importance on national secuirity against extra-regional threats and were preoccupied by fighting with other indian rulers.now that we are on the path to economic developement we must give due importance to our national security.and if you think that USA is an ally of india then you are wrong because you should never forget the 1971 war and the fact that USA is the only country other than china for which pakistan is alive as a nation.it had poured enormous economic and military aid in pakistan to satisfy its own political objectives and the driving force behind terrorism in pakistan.
Exactly, if it were 71, had Pakistan been on death-bed as it is now, then it would have been finished. No more Pakistan. Many new smaller, weaker states similar to Bangladesh would have spouted in the place of Pakistan. But alas no, this not 71...
We don't need to go MAD (pun intended) like the USSR and build 40,000+ nukes.
