Thread: Agni 5 to be ready by 2010

China annexes Tibet violates all international laws commits gross human right violation and yet gets the world to accept that Tibet is an integral part of China,so is the case with Taiwan and Uigur region.

Yet they have guts to comment on Sikkim, Arunachal and Kashmir were we conduct free and fare election, and what do our great leaders reply ?

I realy pity on our condition.

India today said it will test fire the over 5,000 km range nuclear-capable Agni-V surface to surface ballistic missile "within a year", enabling it to bring all the possible targets in China and Pakistan within its striking radius.

The test-firing of the Agni-V missile will also help India to join the elite club on nations with the capability to produce Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs), DRDO Chief V K Saraswat said here.

"Agni-V is a 5,000 km plus missile in the ICBM category and we are planning to carry out its first test within a year," he told reporters here.

Saraswat said, "After Agni III and Agni V, as far as cities in China and Pakistan are concerned, there will be no target that we want to hit but can't hit."

Comparing the Agni-III with Chinese 2,500 km range DF-21 and DF-25, Agni programme Director Avinash Chander said in terms of "accuracy and technology-wise", the indigenous missiles were better than the ones in the neighborhood.

Commenting on the Agni-V, the DRDO chief said the "missile was already out of the drawing boards."

"The first launch will be in an year's time then couple of tests and then we can think of induction. We are confident that the building blocks (for the Agni-III missiles) are in fairly matured stage," Saraswat told reporters here.

He said the missile would be capable of being launched from canisters, which will help it to be launched from multiple platforms.

With certain modifications, canister launchers enable ballistic missiles to be fired from ships and other moving platforms.

The three-stage missile will be similar to Agni-III in design and diameter, with its length five meters more than it.

"Agni-III design is frozen... Agni-V has crossed material cutting stage and subsystem testing is going on. Agni-V is derivative of Agni-III. Practically it is the same missile but it is five meters longer and one tonne heavier. Its navigation system is same.

"Sixty percent missile is available and we are just adding another stage. It will be a three-stage missile and it is the first time we will be building a three-stage missile," Saraswat added.

Programme director Avinash Chander said: "Agni-III has completed three successful trials. Now we can start doing the induction process. It is 100 percent indigenous with more than 80 percent coming from the industries."

Saraswat said the technology of Agni-III is better than China.

"Agni-III technology-wise is better than China. Accuracy is better," Saraswat added.

Both stages of Agni-III are powered by solid propellants. It is 17 metres long, has a diameter of two metres and a launch weight of 50 tonnes. It can carry payloads weighing 1.5 tonnes.

While the first flight of Agni-III July 9, 2006 failed, its second and third test flights April 12, 2007 and May 7, 2008 were successful.

source : Zee News

Originally Posted by Shatrujeet

"Agni-V is a 5,000 km plus missile in the ICBM category and we are planning to carry out its first test within a year," he told reporters here.

Forgive me for my naivety, however Agni V is not an ICBM.

To be deduced as an ICBM, a missile should have a range greater than 5,500 Kms or 3500 Miles, with either a single warhead or with MIRV capabilities. With a range of 5000 Kms, it is defined as an IRBM.

Having said that, if we decrease the payload, the range will automatically increase. And in this case can be called an ICBM.

But glad that we are close.

First Impressions of India's Nuclear Ballistic Missile Agni 5

India finally plans to test its most ambitious strategic missile Agni-5, with near intercontinental ballistic missile capabilities, in December 2011 after some delay.

With high road mobility, fast-reaction ability and a strike range over 5,000 km, Agni5 Missile would even bring China's northernmost regions within its nuclear strike envelope if it is ever required.

The armed forces are already inducting the two-stage 3,500-km Agni3 after completion of its developmental and pre-induction trials last year, having earlier operationalized the Pakistan-specific Agni-1 (700-km) and Agni 2 (over 2,000-km) missiles.

The Agni 5, in turn, is meant to add some much-needed credible deterrence muscle against China, which has a massive nuclear arsenal with missiles like the 11,200-km Dong Feng-31A capable of hitting any Indian city.

For one, it will be quite easy to store and swiftly transport the 17.5-metre tall Agni-V by road since it's a canister-launch missile system, unlike the earlier Agni missiles. If fired from the North-East, for instance, it would be able to hit China's northernmost city of Habin.

For another, Agni-5 would also carry multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicles payloads being concurrently developed. A single MIRVed missile can deliver multiple warheads at different targets even if they are separated by long distances.

"We have tested the three (solid-propellant composite rocket motor) stages of Agni-V independently...all ground tests are now over. The integration process is now in progress. We want to test the missile in December, not let it spill over to 2012," DRDO chief V K Saraswat told TOI on Friday.

This came after Indian defence minister A K Antony, addressing the annual DRDO awards ceremony, asked Indian defence scientists to "Deliver" the 5,000-km missile's capability "at the earliest".

With a "launch mass" of around 50 tonne and a development cost of over Rs 2,500 crore, Agni-5 missile will incorporate advanced technologies involving ring laser gyroscope and accelerator for navigation and guidance. It takes its first stage from Agni-3, with a modified second stage and a miniaturized third stage to ensure it can fly to distances beyond 5,000 km.

An Inter Continental Ballistic Missile , incidentally, usually denotes a missile capable of hitting targets over 5,500 km away, and has largely been the preserve of the Big-5 countries till now.

DRDO is also gearing up for another test of its two-tier ballistic missile defence system, designed to track and destroy hostile missiles both inside (endo) and outside (exo) the earth's atmosphere, around this August with a new interceptor missile called PDV to add to the existing ones.

Indian Defence Minister Antony, on his part, said, "The interceptor missile development programme has taken India into an elite club of nations that possess the capability to demonstrate and deploy missile defence. DRDO should now also work towards developing a credible BMD for our country."

source : Finally, India to test its own ICBM Agni-V in December - The Times of India

India on Thursday test-fired for the first time its most-ambitious strategic missile, the over 5,000-km range Agni-V, in a bid to join the super exclusive ICBM (intercontinental ballistic missile) club that counts just US, Russia,China, France and UK as its members.

The solid-fuelled Agni-V, which will bring the whole of China as well as other regions under its strike envelope, was tested from Wheeler Island off the Odisha coast at 8.07 am.

''We have met all our mission objectives,'' said a jubilant DRD0 chief controller of missiles, Avinash Chander.

DRD0 chief V K Saraswat, in turn, said India had emerged as a major missile power with Thursday's test.

The nuclear-capable, three-stage Agni-V, about 50-tonne in weight and 17.5-metre tall, will become fully operational by 2014-2015 after "four to five repeatable tests" and user trials.

India could have gone for a higher strike range but believes the solid-fuelled Agni-V is "more than adequate'' to meet current threat perceptions and security concerns. The missile can, after all, even hit the northernmost parts of China.

India, of course, cannot match China in terms of its vast nuclear and missile arsenals. But missiles like Agni-V and the 3,500-km Agni-IV, tested last November, will certainly add teeth to its credible minimum nuclear deterrence posture.

With a canister-launch system to impart higher road mobility, the missile will give the armed forces much greater operational flexibility than the earlier-generation of Agni missiles.

"The accuracy levels of Agni-V and Agni-IV, with their better guidance and navigation systems, are far higher than Agni-I (700-km), Agni-II (2,000-km) and Agni-III (3,000-km),'' said the source.

The Agni missiles will get deadlier once MIRV (multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicles) payloads for them are developed. An MIRV payload on a missile carries several nuclear warheads, which can be programmed to hit different targets. A flurry of such missiles can hence completely overwhelm BMD (ballistic missile defence) systems.

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