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Looking ahead to the weekend. Good luck to Agni 5 team.
Have we ever tested two long range missiles with the same range at the same time to different nearby points ...
Have we ever tested two long range missiles with the same range at the same time to different nearby points ...
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my wishes with Agni 5 team ... I wish you a successful testing ...
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It takes time and a strong back to reach Wheeler's Island, from where an Agni-5 missile will blast off on Sunday morning, carrying a simulated nuclear payload to a target 5,000 kilometres away in the southern Indian Ocean.
After a two-hour flight from Delhi to Bhubaneswar, we jolt along for five hours on the road to Dhamra, wondering how the 19 metre-long, 50-tonne Agni-5 ever made that journey. At Dhamra, we board a ferry, which chugs past the Bhitarkanika sanctuary, its thick mangroves a haven for the local saltwater crocodile. An hour later, we are finally at Wheeler Island.
How Wheeler Island became the Cape Canaveral of India is DRDO lore. In the early 1990s, when DRDO was developing its first short-range ballistic missile, the Prithvi missile would be fired 150 kilometres into the Bay of Bengal from Chandipur Range (also on the Odisha coast). But the Army, unconvinced that the Prithvi was accurate down to the specified 150 metres, demanded that it be fired onto land, where its impact point would be clearly visible.
Since safety concerns made firing towards the mainland impossible, the DRDO began searching for an island. The previous DRDO chief, V K Saraswat, then a young scientist, was sent to reconnoitre the uninhabited Wheeler Island. When a fisherman got him there, Saraswat discovered a Bangladeshi flag, apparently planted by fishermen from that country. He quickly uprooted it and the Odisha government leased the island to DRDO for 99 years.
On November 30, 1993, Wheeler Island became the target for a Prithvi missile, fired from Chandipur, 70 kilometres away. To the Army's delight, it impacted just 27 metres away from the designated target, far more accurate than what the Army had hoped for or demanded. A memorial called Prithvi Point now marks that point.
From target, Wheeler Island has evolved into a launch centre. Local villages at Chandipur no longer have to be evacuated each time a missile test takes place.
From the jetty, we drive along a two-kilometre-long railway line that runs through waving palm trees, to the Agni Launch Pad. There, parked in a clearing in the jungle, is the Agni-5, its attractive orange-and-white trim accentuated by the lush vegetation all around.
Scientists and technicians bustle around, watched over by experts who have developed for the Defence R&D Organisation (DRDO) a range of indigenous ballistic missiles in the face of a stiff global technology denial regime. DRDO chief, Avinash Chander, walking around like just another technician, proudly says every thing in the Agni-5 has been made in India.
Chander says this second test of the Agni-5 (its debut launch in April 2012 was an unalloyed success) aims at revalidating systems and building confidence in the missile. If Sunday's launch is successful, the Agni-5 will next be tested as a canisterised missile.
This involves hermetically sealing the Agni-5 into an airtight canister, in which it is can be stored safely for years. The canister, borne on a flatbed truck, can be transported quickly and fired after hydraulically raising it into the vertical firing position. Made of maraging steel, the canister must absorb 300-400 tonnes of thrust that is generated to eject the 50-ton Agni-5.
As Chander speaks, the missile is raised from a horizontal position to the vertical. A series of checks are called out, technicians looking at monitor screens. This is a crucial integrated pre-launch drill, in which every unit participating in the test - a simulated national command centre at New Delhi, radar and telemetry stations all along the missile's flight path, including in the Andaman Islands, telemetry vessels at the impact point 5,000 kilometres away, and all the local elements at the launch centre - run through every aspect of the launch and the flight.
"The test will be conducting like a real nuclear strike, with all the safety systems and safeguards activated, including the issuance of commands from Delhi," says Avinash Chander.
If everything is ticking, the same procedure will be undergone on Sunday, except that the missile will actually fly. Whether the green signal will be given will be decided by a Launch Authorisation Board this evening.
For much of the year, Wheeler Island is almost empty, guarded only by security staff. In February and March, close to 1,50,000 Olive Ridley Turtles come to lay eggs on its beaches. The DRDO is quietly proud that the turtle numbers are growing.
But for periods like now, a thousand technicians converge on this idyllic island, working feverishly as they know well that even a tiny mistake is the difference between a successful test-flight and a missile that goes down in flames.
Source: Business Standard.
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After a two-hour flight from Delhi to Bhubaneswar, we jolt along for five hours on the road to Dhamra, wondering how the 19 metre-long, 50-tonne Agni-5 ever made that journey. At Dhamra, we board a ferry, which chugs past the Bhitarkanika sanctuary, its thick mangroves a haven for the local saltwater crocodile. An hour later, we are finally at Wheeler Island.
How Wheeler Island became the Cape Canaveral of India is DRDO lore. In the early 1990s, when DRDO was developing its first short-range ballistic missile, the Prithvi missile would be fired 150 kilometres into the Bay of Bengal from Chandipur Range (also on the Odisha coast). But the Army, unconvinced that the Prithvi was accurate down to the specified 150 metres, demanded that it be fired onto land, where its impact point would be clearly visible.
Since safety concerns made firing towards the mainland impossible, the DRDO began searching for an island. The previous DRDO chief, V K Saraswat, then a young scientist, was sent to reconnoitre the uninhabited Wheeler Island. When a fisherman got him there, Saraswat discovered a Bangladeshi flag, apparently planted by fishermen from that country. He quickly uprooted it and the Odisha government leased the island to DRDO for 99 years.
On November 30, 1993, Wheeler Island became the target for a Prithvi missile, fired from Chandipur, 70 kilometres away. To the Army's delight, it impacted just 27 metres away from the designated target, far more accurate than what the Army had hoped for or demanded. A memorial called Prithvi Point now marks that point.
From target, Wheeler Island has evolved into a launch centre. Local villages at Chandipur no longer have to be evacuated each time a missile test takes place.
From the jetty, we drive along a two-kilometre-long railway line that runs through waving palm trees, to the Agni Launch Pad. There, parked in a clearing in the jungle, is the Agni-5, its attractive orange-and-white trim accentuated by the lush vegetation all around.
Scientists and technicians bustle around, watched over by experts who have developed for the Defence R&D Organisation (DRDO) a range of indigenous ballistic missiles in the face of a stiff global technology denial regime. DRDO chief, Avinash Chander, walking around like just another technician, proudly says every thing in the Agni-5 has been made in India.
Chander says this second test of the Agni-5 (its debut launch in April 2012 was an unalloyed success) aims at revalidating systems and building confidence in the missile. If Sunday's launch is successful, the Agni-5 will next be tested as a canisterised missile.
This involves hermetically sealing the Agni-5 into an airtight canister, in which it is can be stored safely for years. The canister, borne on a flatbed truck, can be transported quickly and fired after hydraulically raising it into the vertical firing position. Made of maraging steel, the canister must absorb 300-400 tonnes of thrust that is generated to eject the 50-ton Agni-5.
As Chander speaks, the missile is raised from a horizontal position to the vertical. A series of checks are called out, technicians looking at monitor screens. This is a crucial integrated pre-launch drill, in which every unit participating in the test - a simulated national command centre at New Delhi, radar and telemetry stations all along the missile's flight path, including in the Andaman Islands, telemetry vessels at the impact point 5,000 kilometres away, and all the local elements at the launch centre - run through every aspect of the launch and the flight.
"The test will be conducting like a real nuclear strike, with all the safety systems and safeguards activated, including the issuance of commands from Delhi," says Avinash Chander.
If everything is ticking, the same procedure will be undergone on Sunday, except that the missile will actually fly. Whether the green signal will be given will be decided by a Launch Authorisation Board this evening.
For much of the year, Wheeler Island is almost empty, guarded only by security staff. In February and March, close to 1,50,000 Olive Ridley Turtles come to lay eggs on its beaches. The DRDO is quietly proud that the turtle numbers are growing.
But for periods like now, a thousand technicians converge on this idyllic island, working feverishly as they know well that even a tiny mistake is the difference between a successful test-flight and a missile that goes down in flames.
Source: Business Standard.
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Agni-V missile successfully test launched from Wheeler Island off Odisha coast
TNN | Sep 15, 2013, 08.58AM IST
NEW DELHI: India on Sunday successfully test launched over 5,000-km Agni-V missile, which will be able to hit even the northernmost part of China, from the Wheeler Island off the Odisha coast.
This is the second test launch of the long range missile. The first test was conducted on April 19, 2012.
Once the 17.5-metre tall Agni-V becomes fully operational, India will fully break into the super-exclusive ICBM (intercontinental ballistic missile) club of the US, Russia, China, France and the UK that wield such missiles.
An ICBM is a missile that typically has a range over 5,500-km. Though DRDO scientists are confident of developing a missile with a higher strike range, the government has assessed that the solid-fuelled Agni-V is enough to meet existing threat perceptions''because only credible strategic deterrence'' is required against Beijing.
China, of course, has a formidable missile arsenal. Its road-mobile DF-31A missile, for instance, can hit targets 11,200-km away, bringing all major Indian cities under its strike envelope. China also has the JL-2 submarine-launched missile with a 7,400-km range. The two-stage Agni-IV, with a 3,500-km strike, in turn, will be ready for induction by 2014-2015. The missile is similar to Agni-V in terms of accuracy and kill efficiencies.
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. As reported by TOI earlier, defence scientists are also working on maneuvering warheads or 're-entry vehicles' to defeat enemy ballistic missile defence systems as well as MIRVs (multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicles) for the Agni missiles. An MIRV payload implies a single missile carrying several nuclear warheads, each programmed to hit different targets.
Agni-V missile successfully test launched from Wheeler Island off Odisha coast
TNN | Sep 15, 2013, 08.58AM IST
NEW DELHI: India on Sunday successfully test launched over 5,000-km Agni-V missile, which will be able to hit even the northernmost part of China, from the Wheeler Island off the Odisha coast.
This is the second test launch of the long range missile. The first test was conducted on April 19, 2012.
Once the 17.5-metre tall Agni-V becomes fully operational, India will fully break into the super-exclusive ICBM (intercontinental ballistic missile) club of the US, Russia, China, France and the UK that wield such missiles.
An ICBM is a missile that typically has a range over 5,500-km. Though DRDO scientists are confident of developing a missile with a higher strike range, the government has assessed that the solid-fuelled Agni-V is enough to meet existing threat perceptions''because only credible strategic deterrence'' is required against Beijing.
China, of course, has a formidable missile arsenal. Its road-mobile DF-31A missile, for instance, can hit targets 11,200-km away, bringing all major Indian cities under its strike envelope. China also has the JL-2 submarine-launched missile with a 7,400-km range. The two-stage Agni-IV, with a 3,500-km strike, in turn, will be ready for induction by 2014-2015. The missile is similar to Agni-V in terms of accuracy and kill efficiencies.
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. As reported by TOI earlier, defence scientists are also working on maneuvering warheads or 're-entry vehicles' to defeat enemy ballistic missile defence systems as well as MIRVs (multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicles) for the Agni missiles. An MIRV payload implies a single missile carrying several nuclear warheads, each programmed to hit different targets.
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Nuclear-capable 'Agni-V' tested for second time
India on Sunday conducted a second test flight of its indigenously developed nuclear- capable 'Agni-V' long-range ballistic missile, which has a strike range of more than 5000 km, from the Wheeler Island off Odisha coast.
The three stage, solid propellant missile was test-fired from a mobile launcher from the launch complex-4 of the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at about 8:50 AM, defence sources said.
The surface-to-surface missile, which can carry a nuclear warhead of more than one tonne, witnessed an 'auto launch' and detail results of the trial will be known after thorough analyses of all data retrieved from different radars and network systems, they said.
"The sleek missile, within a few seconds of its blast-off from the Island launch pad, roared majestically into a clear sunny sky leaving behind a trail of thin orange and white column of smoke and within seconds it pierced into sky," said an eye-witness to the launch.
The launch, conducted in the presence of defence scientists and experts, was the second developmental trial of the long range missile while the first test was conducted on 19 April, 2012 which was a total success.
The indigenously developed missile Agni-V is capable of striking a range of more than 5000 km. It is about 17 meter long and 2 metres wide with launch weight of around 50 tonnes.
Unlike other missiles of indigenously built Agni series, the latest one 'AGNI-V' is the most advanced version having some new technologies incorporated with it in terms of navigation and guidance, warhead and engine.
Many new technologies developed indigenously were successfully tested in the first Agni-V trial. The redundant navigation systems, very high accuracy Ring Laser Gyro based Inertial Navigation System (RINS) and the most modern and accurate Micro Navigation System (MINS) had ensured the missile reach the target point within few meters of accuracy.
The high speed onboard computer and fault tolerant software along with robust and reliable bus guided the missile flawlessly, said a defence official.
In the Agni series, India at present has Agni-1 with 700 km range, Agni-2 with 2000 km range, Agni-3 and Agni-4 with 2500 km to more than 3500 range.
After some more trials, Agni-V will be inducted into the services, the sources said.
Nuclear-capable 'Agni-V' tested for second time - The Hindu
India successfully test-fires nuclear-capable Agni V missile from Odisha's Wheeler Island
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Agni-5, India's most potent nuclear-capable ballistic missile, launched successfully
Wheeler Island, Odisha: India has successfully test-launched its new ballistic missile, Agni-5, which can carry a nuclear warhead not just to Beijing and Shanghai but even the Northern-most tip of China - Habin City. (Analysis: What Agni-V means for India)
The test-launch, done from Wheeler Island at 8:43 am, off the Odisha coast, for the second time in two years, is seen as a major step in India's efforts to become a regional power that can counter the dominance of China.(Pics: Test-launch of Agni-5)
The Agni-5 is about 17 meters long and weighs 50 tons. It is a three-stage missile designed to carry a 1.5-ton warhead with a range of 5,000 kilometers (3,100 miles), allowing it the furthest reach among all Indian missiles. The Agni-3 is India's current longest-range missile and can cover a distance of 3,500 kilometers (2,100 miles).
The versatile missile system can be launched from a road mobile vehicle or even from a special railway bogey where it can be kept hidden and moved around at will. (Missiles of the world: a look at countries' nuclear arsenals)
The first test of the Agni-5 missile was conducted in April 2012 when guidance systems - critical in determining the efficiency of missile - worked perfectly.
The development of Agni-5 began in 1983. Sources say that a few more tests will be required before the missile is ready for induction and deployment, most likely in 2017.
Agni-5 gives India the ability to launch nuclear weapons from strategic bombers and submarines. It will give India the ability hit back or have second-strike capability even after a nuclear attack.
The Su-30 MKi and the French-made Mirrage 2000 aircraft are capable of delivering nuclear missiles from the air. The INS Arihant, an indigenously-made nuclear-powered submarine is undergoing sea trials and expected to join the Indian Navy by 2016-2017. (Nuclear reactor on INS Arihant goes critical; huge step forward for India's N-triad)
India has also proven its ability to launch nuclear missiles from under the sea. Over a dozen test successful test of K-15 missiles - nuclear missiles which will be launched from the submarine - have been conducted in the last few years.
Agni-5, India's most potent nuclear-capable ballistic missile, launched successfully | NDTV.com
video on the above link.
Wheeler Island, Odisha: India has successfully test-launched its new ballistic missile, Agni-5, which can carry a nuclear warhead not just to Beijing and Shanghai but even the Northern-most tip of China - Habin City. (Analysis: What Agni-V means for India)
The test-launch, done from Wheeler Island at 8:43 am, off the Odisha coast, for the second time in two years, is seen as a major step in India's efforts to become a regional power that can counter the dominance of China.(Pics: Test-launch of Agni-5)
The Agni-5 is about 17 meters long and weighs 50 tons. It is a three-stage missile designed to carry a 1.5-ton warhead with a range of 5,000 kilometers (3,100 miles), allowing it the furthest reach among all Indian missiles. The Agni-3 is India's current longest-range missile and can cover a distance of 3,500 kilometers (2,100 miles).
The versatile missile system can be launched from a road mobile vehicle or even from a special railway bogey where it can be kept hidden and moved around at will. (Missiles of the world: a look at countries' nuclear arsenals)
The first test of the Agni-5 missile was conducted in April 2012 when guidance systems - critical in determining the efficiency of missile - worked perfectly.
The development of Agni-5 began in 1983. Sources say that a few more tests will be required before the missile is ready for induction and deployment, most likely in 2017.
Agni-5 gives India the ability to launch nuclear weapons from strategic bombers and submarines. It will give India the ability hit back or have second-strike capability even after a nuclear attack.
The Su-30 MKi and the French-made Mirrage 2000 aircraft are capable of delivering nuclear missiles from the air. The INS Arihant, an indigenously-made nuclear-powered submarine is undergoing sea trials and expected to join the Indian Navy by 2016-2017. (Nuclear reactor on INS Arihant goes critical; huge step forward for India's N-triad)
India has also proven its ability to launch nuclear missiles from under the sea. Over a dozen test successful test of K-15 missiles - nuclear missiles which will be launched from the submarine - have been conducted in the last few years.
Agni-5, India's most potent nuclear-capable ballistic missile, launched successfully | NDTV.com
video on the above link.
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priority is to first induct A5 as it is, then do new stuff on it, this is because of the Chini mood swings. Once the three successful tests done, then canister and MIRV and anti BMD tests on it.
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