Following Agni 5 Success India Plans Longer-Range Missile. PrintShareEmailTwitterFacebookLinkedIn Emboldened by Sunday's launch of the nuclear-capable Agni 5, Indian weapon designers are turning their focus to developing a next-generation missile with an initial range of 3,700 miles, the New Indian Express reported. Indian Defense Research and Development Organization officials are calling the missile the Agni 6 and "Surya," according to unidentified defense insiders. Later iterations of the missile could be designed to travel in excess of 6,200 miles.
India technically does not possess an intercontinental-ballistic missile, though its developmental Agni 5 comes close to its reach with a tested range of 3,100 miles. An ICBM is typically understood to have a minimum top flight distance of 3,400 miles, according to the Times of India. DRDO head Avinash Chander on Monday claimed India only would need "two-and-a-half years" to ready a missile with a 6,200 mile range.
However, no current security need calls for such an ICBM. Advanced Agni-6 missile with multiple warheads likely by 2017. Technicians at the Advanced Systems Laboratory, Hyderabad, work on the payload of an Agni-3 missile By Ajai Shukla Business Standard, 8th May 13 Ending worldwide speculation about the futuristic Agni-6 missile, the Defence R&D Organisation (DRDO) has briefed Business Standard about the direction of India’s ballistic missile development programme after the Agni-5 enters service, probably in 2015. DRDO chief Dr VK Saraswat, and missile programme chief Dr Avinash Chander, say the Agni-6 project has not been formally sanctioned.
However, the missile’s specifications and capabilities have been decided and development is proceeding apace. Once the ongoing Agni-5 programme concludes flight-testing, the defence ministry (MoD) will formally okay the Agni-6 programme and allocate funding. Chander says the Agni-6 will carry a massive three-tonne warhead, thrice the weight of the one-tonne warhead that Agni missiles have carried so far.
India test fires K-5 ballistic missile from underwater. New Delhi: Moving a step closer to completing its nuclear triad, India today successfully test fired a ballistic missile, with a strike range of around 1500 kilometres, from an underwater platform in Bay of Bengal. “The medium range K-5 ballistic missile was test fired successfully today from an underwater pontoon and all parameters of the test firing were met,” DRDO chief V K Saraswat told PTI from the undisclosed test area. Nuclear triad is the ability to fire nuclear-tipped missiles from land, air and sea.
Representational image. Reuters. Saraswat said that the development phase of the K-5 missile, which is a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM), was over and it was now ready for deployment on various platforms including the indigenous nuclear submarine INS Arihant which is under development. K-5 is part of the family of underwater missiles being developed by Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) for the Indian strategic forces’ underwater platforms.
India's missiles targeted Sri Lanka's strategic institutions. Ballistic missile Prithvi II test fired successfully. India to Test Long-Range Missile in 2-3 Months. PrintShareEmailTwitterFacebookLinkedIn India is set within two to three months to carry out its first trial firing of a missile with flight capabilities approaching that of an ICBM, the Asian Age reported on Sunday (see GSN, Nov. 17, 2011). The nuclear-capable Agni 5 missile's initial test launch had earlier been projected to take place before 2011 was over (see GSN, June 6, 2011). The weapon has a designed flight distance of approximately 3,100 miles, allowing it to reach areas as far away as northern China. The long-range ballistic missile is not expected to be fully operational before 2014, according to earlier reports. The Agni 5 is the product of continuous work by 1,000 researchers to see the missile fully developed and ready for use, according to the Indian Defense Research and Development Organization.
The senior Indian scientist said the three-stage Agni 5 was designed as "a totally new system from top to bottom. " Nuke capable Agni-I missile test-fired. India’s Missile Arsenal - Analysis. By Debalina Ghoshal Under the Integrated Guided Missile Development Program, India started with developing an indigenous missile system. The Prithvi, Agni, Aakash, Nag and Trishul were the missiles that were to be developed. India has also developed missiles with collaboration of from foreign countries. India also plans to buy foreign missiles to fill the gaps of indigenous missiles whose credibility could be doubtful. The article takes a brief look at the missiles that India possesses. The Prithvi was the first indigenously developed liquid fueled ballistic missile for Army, Air- force and Navy (Dhanush version). According to Global Security Reports the Prithvi II, the air-force version, is capable of hitting major cities and military targets while the navy version could be armed with five different types of conventional warheads and a pre-fragmented warhead was developed which had performed well in both dynamic and static trials.
About the author: Eurasia Review. Indian Nuke-Ready Missiles Tested. PrintShareEmailTwitterFacebookLinkedIn India today achieved anticipated results in the test launches of two short-range missiles designed to carry nuclear or conventional warheads, Agence France-Presse reported (see GSN, Sept. 24). The launches of the Prithvi 2 ballistic missiles came one day after India's neighboring rival Pakistan tested its own nuclear-ready Ghauri Hatf 5 missile (see GSN, Dec. 21). The Prithvi 2 has a range of roughly 215 miles and can carry warheads as heavy as 1,100 pounds. The missiles were launched from the Integrated Test Range in Orissa state, according to site chief S.P.
Dash. The last test of the system in September proved unsuccessful when the missile failed to launch. "Prithvi 2 missile had proved its robustness and accuracy repeatedly during many trials earlier," an Indian Defense Research and Development Organization source said to the Press Trust of India (Agence France-Presse/Yahoo! Dia plans to test-fire 3,000 km range ''Agni-2 Prime'', IBN Live News. PTI | 03:09 PM,Sep 18,2011 New Delhi, Sep 18 (PTI) India is planning to test fire by next month 'Agni-2 Prime', an advanced nuclear-capable ballistic missile with a strike range of around 3,000 km.
" This is an automated news feed. The contents have not been selected or edited by IBNLive. Indian defence gears up for a spate of missile tests. Balasore, Orissa: The Indian defence establishment is gearing up for a hectic round of missile tests in the latter half of this month at the two test facilities of the Integrated Test Range (ITR) off the Orissa coast. According to defence sources, hundreds of DRDO scientists are camping at the site. The missiles to be test fired, according to sources, will include the land version of K-15 missile dubbed as the 'Shaurya', the surface-to-surface, short range, Prithvi-II and the medium range ballistic missile, the Agni-II.. While Shaurya is likely to be tested any time between 17-18 September, the Prithvi-II will be tested between 22-24 September followed by Agni-II on 30 September.
The 2000-km range Agni-II had developed technical snags in its previous outing at the same site, when it was being tested by the Strategic Forces Command, leading to postponement. The 600 km 'Shaurya' is being tested for the second time.