Agni-1 test-fired successfully

[The Deterrent]

Pl help yourself Link is posted.

Gates Says U.S. Has Conventionally Armed ICBMs | Defense Tech

I would like to quote one of the comments posted there:

One of the obvious weak points for ICBM-deployed conventional munitions is the inherent CEP of the system. These are not "smart bombs". They have a "dumb" ballistic trajectory that ensures a probable hit within radius of hundreds of meters of the nominal target. There are no terminal guidance devices like you see on the "sexy" smart-bombs like JDAM or Paveway with CEP's in the inches. Its pretty much an unguided weapon after the warhead is released from the suborbital bus package.

Another disadvantage is the throw weight. These systems are only capable of carrying so much into a suborbital ballistic trajectory. Most systems are around 2000-4000 pounds, and the LGM-118(MX) being around 9000 pounds, but its being phased out, if it hasn't been already.

So, using the GBU-43/B MOAB (22000 pounds) as a benchmark, with a 140 meter kill radius, we could expect, out of a 2500 pound warhead of similar manufacture, perhaps a 75 meter kill radius optimally - on a LGM-30G(Minuteman III), which has a CEP of about 100 meters. So, 25 percent of the time, the target is going to be outside of the kill radius, even if the warhead is delivered optimally. Keep in mind CEP is a 50 percent chance of getting within the given distance from the target for any given deployment. Do the math. That's a 12.5 percent chance of a kill. And that's a soft-target kill like an infantry formation, POL depot, city block, etc. Forget any kind hard-target kills like bunkers or prepared formations.

We haven't even factored in fusing errors... the warhead is traveling at about 12000 miles per hour. A second at that speed is the difference between 17000 feet and pancake in the dirt.

However, US Navy & Lockheed Martin can't be taken lightly. They must have found a way to increase re-entry stability (probably a fundamental change in the design) and give an even lower/depressed trajectory to the system. Looking forward keenly to the first test flight of this system.

 

[Chak Bamu]

@Chak Bamu; is this post relevant to the topic of the thread?
If so, please explain how?.......thanks in advance.

OT, but not abusive as such. Borderline case - I could delete it, or I could leave it. Since I have deleted the earlier posts of the poster in question, I thought I should leave one post.

 

[kurup]

The missile carrying a 1,100-kg payload zeroed in on the target with a high degree of accuracy, a missile scientist with the Defence Research and Development Organisation said. Describing it as a fantastic launch, he said the missile achieved a CEP (circular error probability) of about 50 metres. Its trajectory was tracked and monitored by sophisticated radars, telemetry observation stations, electro-optic instruments and naval ships through the 550-second flight.

SFC personnel test-fires Agni-I - The Hindu


"The missile covered 650km in nine minutes and met all parameters. It was a Mark-02 version of the missile," said a scientist of the Integrated Test Range (ITR).

Weighing 12 tonne, the 15-metre-long Agni-I, has already been inducted into the Indian Army.

Agni-I was first tested at ITR, Chandipur, in 1989. The last trial of the Agni-I missile was successfully carried out on April 12, 2014 from the same base. It was first trial that was launched after sunset.

Agni-1 test-fired successfully - The Times of India

 

[IND151]

How does that really matter? Maybe they pumped more fuel into her........or did some 'servicing' on the engine; changed the spark-plugs or something like-- used K&N filters.

?????

So it was the lack of Uranium in India which stopped India from conducting further nuclear tests .

We get to learn new things in PDF every day .....

Level of some member's understanding of International politics can be described in single word, and that is zilch.

 

[IND151]

@Capt. Popeye we expect you to enlight people like us and not troll. Give some inside information on Agni 1.

I agree with you, Sir.

 

[kurup]

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K&N Performance Air Filters, Air Intakes, & Oil Filters

Level of some member's understanding of International politics can be described in single word, and that is zilch.

And these members comes from one country ..... one to our west ....

 

[HariPrasad]

It was a Mark-02 version of the missile," said a scientist of the Integrated Test Range (ITR).

I read on an another forum an opinion of a member that they might have tested some MARV sort of thing.