Agni V Missile

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Another test in the present configuration of the three-stage missile would be conducted later this year.

Two tests were scheduled this year one May-June period and other later.

Does this statement means there will be no test of Agni-V in May-June period?

 

[sayareakd]

this is slightly off topic but applicable for A5.

I always thought what is the cloud ring when A3 was launched

answer was given by ISRO

While watching the live coverage of PSLV / GSLV, the sudden formation of a cloud around the heat shield during the transonic and low supersonic regimes, might have aroused curiosity.

The clouds result from condensation, which denotes the formation of water droplets suspended in the atmosphere just like dew on the blades of grass. Condensation takes place when the local temperature becomes equal to or less than the dew point. In aircrafts and launch vehicles, the local flow aerodynamics causes reduction in local temperature leading to condensation.

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[Payeng]

The later example is the vapor cone, while the cloud formation on A3 do not seems like that.

Examples of vapor cone.

 

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Agni-V trial next month

By Hemant Kumar Rout | ENS - BALASORE 04th June 2013 09:42 AM

India is gearing up to conduct the second experimental test of 5000-km range nuclear capable missile Agni-V from a defence base off Odisha coast early next month. The decision comes after the man behind Agni missiles Avinash Chander assumed charge as Scientific Advisor to Defence Minister.

Though the missile was initially planned to be tested in May and then deferred to June, the change of guard at the DRDO reportedly delayed the preparation. The proposed test assumes significance as the weapon is the country's most potent and longest range missile.

Preparations are on at the Wheeler Island test facility in Bhadrak district from where the missile would be test launched. "The missile components have already been brought to the base. The launch pad is being readied and simultaneously the weapon integrated," said the source.

Similarly, tracking instruments including long range radars and Electro-Optical Tracking Systems (EOTS) have been dispatched to be positioned at the required places to monitor movement of the missile. There will also be tracking set up on board a war ship.

DRDO is waiting for a successful test like its maiden test on April 19 last year. "We are looking forward to a good flight of the missile. After this, we would go for another trial at the end of this year or early next year before going for its induction in the armed forces," said a defence official.

The Agni-V missile is an advanced long-range surface-to-surface ballistic missile capable of being launched within minutes from a self-contained road mobile launcher. In terms of technologies, it is the country's most advanced strategic missile and incorporates many new indigenously developed technologies.

A DRDO scientist said the new technologies incorporated in the missile system have ensured a very high level of accuracy, high reliability and light weight. Its first successful flight test has brought India at par with the elite group of six advanced countries including US, UK, China, France and Russia, possessing such deterrence capability. The missile which can carry a payload of 1.5 tonne is 17 metre long, 2 metre wide and weighs around 50 tonnes. DRDO is reportedly working to equip the missile with Multiple Independent Re-entry Vehicles (MIRVs) through which each missile can carry 2 to 10 separate nuclear warheads and strike at different places. Chander told this paper on Monday that the missile would be test-fired shortly, but date had not been fixed. "However, test is not possible this month," he informed.

Agni-V trial next month - The New Indian Express

 

[Sridhar]

Agni V - Canister Launch

Agni-V warming up for a canister-style trial launch - The New Indian Express

 

[sayareakd]

Agni V - Canister Launch

Agni-V warming up for a canister-style trial launch - The New Indian Express

So they must have tested the canister launch with dummy missile with A5 weight. Now they are going test it with real missile.

 

[Sridhar]

This news from January 2013

India will test fire a canisterised version of its 5000 km range Agni-V Intercontinental Ballistic Missile(ICBM) in the coming months.

Agni-V missile will be launched from a canister mounted on a Tatra truck from Wheeler Island, off the Odisha coast,India traverse more than 5,000 kilometres across the sky, and then splash into the Indian Ocean.
Agni V made its successful maiden launch on April 19, 2012.
The 17.5-metre-long, three-stage missile weighing 50 tonnes, is rail and road mobile and has just a 20-minute flight duration.

Although India's supersonic cruise missiles BrahMos and hypersonic surface-to-surface missile Shourya are canisterised missiles and the DRDO had testfired them many times, this would be the first time it will be firing a missile of the 50-tonne class from a tube. Besides, the missile is 17.5 metres long. While BrahMos cruise missile weighs only three tonnes and is only nine metres long, Shourya weighs about six tonnes and is 10 m long.
A gas generator placed at the bottom of the canister will erupt into life and push the missile out of the tube. After the missile comes out of the tube, its ignition will take place in the air.
Canisterisation improves the lifetime of missile
In missile parlance, a canisterised launch is called a "cold launch".
Although the principles for pushing Agni V out from a canister are the same as for BrahMos and Shourya, which have been testfired from canisters many times, its engineering becomes very difficult, because of the canister's size and the missile's heavy nozzles.

Heading the Advanced Systems Laboratory (ASL), the Defence Research and Development Organisation's (DRDO) missile-making laboratory in Hyderabad India, is V.G. Sekaran, one of the architects of Agni-V.
"We are vigorously working on the canisterised launch," ASL Director Sekaran said. It is a very involved job in terms of the number of sub-systems that will be employed. The canister will be the biggest made in the country. The ASL has done specialised work in the design and engineering of the canister and the gas generator.
Aerospace Research Analysis Wing: India to Test Fire Canisterised Agni-V ICBM

 

[Payeng]

Agni-V missile will be launched from a canister mounted on a Tatra truck from Wheeler Island

I have no idea about a Tatra truck available in India that can carry a payload of 50+ ton, but there are trailers with multiple wheels that can bear a payload of 50 ton or so, that makes it road-rail mobile onlee.

 

[TrueSpirit]

Once this is successful, all focus should be on MIRV'ed version's test, & then on development of Nirbhay (war-fighting with China), Prahar (battlefield tactical missile for Pak) & then on K4, K5 (for completion of nuclear triad).

 

[sayareakd]

I have no idea about a Tatra truck available in India that can carry a payload of 50+ ton, but there are trailers with multiple wheels that can bear a payload of 50 ton or so, that makes it road-rail mobile onlee.

true

 

[cobra commando]

Wut! :fkidding: we don't have any 'TEL' to canister launch our Agni V ? :why:

 

[sayareakd]

Wut! :fkidding: we don't have any 'TEL' to canister launch our Agni V ? :why:

existing launcher will be modified for canister launch. Expect something like this for A5.

 

[Virendra]

I like it. This would help in retaining counter strike capability, even after military and civil infrastructure takes a hit, which is near certainty in the coming war ... a war of missiles.
The more agile power will carry the day.

 

[sayareakd]

since it was approved by DRDO therefore i am posting it here

 

[Payeng]

 

[Payeng]

And for Agni-V

 

[sayareakd]

years ago i saw this in India Today, when actual pic was shown it made me

 

[Payeng]

regarding road mobility I would prefer this

but maybe we will be getting something like this...

like the chinese...

 

[Ganesh2691]

Agni-V to be tested twice this year, could be inducted by 2015

India's most formidable strategic missile, the over 5,000-km Agni-V, will be tested twice before this year ends to ensure it is ready for full-scale induction in the armed forces towards end-2015.Interestingly, the latter of the two tests will see the 50-tonne Agni-V being fired from a hermetically-sealed canister mounted on a launcher truck. A canister-launch system will give the forces the requisite operational flexibility to swiftly transport the ballistic missile and launch it from a place of their choosing. Consequently, the highly road-mobile Agni-V will be able to hit even the northernmost part of China if fired from close to the Line of Actual Control.

"We are getting ready for two more tests of the three-stage Agni-V this year, which will include the canister-launch trial. Our aim is to make the missile ready for induction in two years," said new DRDO chief Avinash Chander, talking exclusively to TOI.

Similar plans are underway to make the two-stage Agni-IV, with a 3,500-km strike range, ready for induction by end-2014. The armed forces have already inducted the Pakistan-specific Agni-I (700-km) and Agni-II (over 2,000-km) as well as the 3,000-km Agni-III.

The Agni-IV and Agni-V missiles, however, are in a different class with "much higher accuracy and kill efficiencies" to give teeth to the minimum credible deterrence posture against China. With a massive nuclear arsenal and missiles like the 11,200-km Dong Feng-31A capable of hitting any Indian city, Beijing is leagues ahead of New Delhi.

DRDO, however, remains unfazed. Work is in progress to make the solid-fuelled Agni-IV and Agni-V, the latter virtually an intercontinental ballistic missile, even more lethal.

"After these two missiles are inducted, the two major focus areas will be maneuvering warheads or re-entry vehicles to defeat enemy ballistic missile defence systems and MIRVs(multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicles)," Chander said.

An MIRV payload implies a single missile carrying several nuclear warheads, each programmed to hit different targets. "But there is no Agni-VI programme as of now. We are working on enabling technologies and capabilities"¦ we will come to the Agni-VI programme, if required, later," he said.

But is DRDO being too optimistic about the Agni-IV and Agni-V induction schedules, given that both have been tested only once till now? "No, we require just six to seven trials. We are no longer in the age when a large number of trials are required," said Chander, a missile scientist who was the overall head of the expansive Agni programme earlier.

"These surface-to-surface missiles have well-defined (parabolic) trajectories, unlike say air-to-air missiles. We conduct thousands of tests through modeling and simulation in our labs under different conditions. The actual flight trials are to validate what is predicted in simulation tests, match the algorithms," he added.

Agni-V to be tested twice this year, could be inducted by 2015 | idrw.org

 

[SajeevJino]

"After these two missiles are inducted, the two major focus areas will be maneuvering warheads or re-entry vehicles to defeat enemy ballistic missile defence systems and MIRVs(multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicles)," Chander said.

so as of now AGNI 5 is not a MIRV one ..but can be Modified