Agni-IV strategic missile successfully test-fired from Wheeler Island, off Odisha Coast.

[kaykay]

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https://twitter.com/x/status/663589057356689409

 

[shaheenmissile]

Agni 4 is just a souped up Agni 2.
It has a very tall trajectory with apogee of about 900 Kilometers. Not much refined,as refined missiles go on depressed trajectory.

 

[Maarkhoor]

Agni 4 is just a souped up Agni 2.
It has a very tall trajectory with apogee of about 900 Kilometers. Not much refined,as refined missiles go on depressed trajectory.

 

[shaheenmissile]

It is a very thin missile. The 2nd stage dia is 100-110 Cm. Most probably 110 Cm and carries the same warhead as Agni-5 which has same warhead Dia of 110 Cm.
Hardly a "City killer".

 

[AMCA]

Agni 4 is just a souped up Agni 2.
It has a very tall trajectory with apogee of about 900 Kilometers. Not much refined,as refined missiles go on depressed trajectory.

It follows the trajectory its commanded to.. If you are talking about flight altitude then you are wrong. There are missiles that go as far as 1200 Km's.

 

[shaheenmissile]

It follows the trajectory its commanded to.. If you are talking about flight altitude then you are wrong. There are missiles that go as far as 1200 Km's.

Yes but likewise those missiles have ranges of 10,000 Km.

 

[$@rJen]

Agni 4 is just a souped up Agni 2.
It has a very tall trajectory with apogee of about 900 Kilometers. Not much refined,as refined missiles go on depressed trajectory.

Sir.Are you trying to be an expert or something which you are not and will not be!!!

This was officially acknowledged.. we don't know what are you trying to say.. so what if the apogee is 900Km??

 

[jammersat]

Is it named after an indian goddess or god ?

 

[AMCA]

Yes but likewise those missiles have ranges of 10,000 Km.

But where do you see a problem in that? How does it make a longer range missiles more refined and a missile with lesser range un refined?

Is it named after an indian goddess or god ?

Agni means Fire.

 

[jammersat]

i see , why not launch an internet satellite with it instead of warmongering , you could be replacing google balloon internet

 

[AMCA]

It is a very thin missile. The 2nd stage dia is 100-110 Cm. Most probably 110 Cm and carries the same warhead as Agni-5 which has same warhead Dia of 110 Cm.
Hardly a "City killer".

Your logic please? There is no way you can measure the destruction it can cause based on its size. It is not a KKV.

i see , why not launch an internet satellite with it instead of warmongering , you could be replacing google balloon internet

We already have ISRO doing that for us and FYKI Agni can take up the task of Launching Military Sats.

 

[shaheenmissile]

Your logic please? There is no way you can measure the destruction it can cause based on its size. s.

Logic is simple. Size does matter. More size means more fissile material and more bang.
Agni 4 due to it's very high apogee,will enter atmosphere at very high speed,well in the realms of Mach 20.
Such high speed means too much air friction and resultant heat,for whichneeded heavy heat shields will be needed to protect warhead and electronics. Leaving even lesser space for warhead,meaning lower yields.
For example American 300 kt. W-87 was 57 cm wide and 170 cm long. And that was just warhead. Heat shield and other systems also need space.
So the point being made here in addition to all the above, India does not have any MIRV capable missiles, not even A-5. Also none of Indian missiles can carry city killers of half megaton or megaton range yield.

 

[Guynextdoor2]

Agni 4 is just a souped up Agni 2.
It has a very tall trajectory with apogee of about 900 Kilometers. Not much refined,as refined missiles go on depressed trajectory.

WHo gave you that idea? You don't have any ABM systems that can take on IRBM ranges at all. It don't make any difference what kinds of trajectories our missiles take.

 

[shaheenmissile]

WHo gave you that idea? You don't have any ABM systems that can take on IRBM ranges at all. It don't make any difference what kinds of trajectories our missiles take.

Yeah,but a 4000 km range missile is more China specific than Pakistan specific. They do have ABM.

 

[AMCA]

Logic is simple. Size does matter. More size means more fissile material and more bang.
Agni 4 due to it's very high apogee,will enter atmosphere at very high speed,well in the realms of Mach 20.
Such high speed means too much air friction and resultant heat,for whichneeded heavy heat shields will be needed to protect warhead and electronics. Leaving even lesser space for warhead,meaning lower yields.
For example American 300 kt. W-87 was 57 cm wide and 170 cm long. And that was just warhead. Heat shield and other systems also need space.
So the point being made here in addition to all the above, India does not have any MIRV capable missiles, not even A-5. Also none of Indian missiles can carry city killers of half megaton or megaton range yield.

Size is sure a deciding factor to the Kill capability of an IRV yet a miniaturized munition paves way for a higher degree of Damage. India uses Ballistic Glide Reentry Vehicle in the class of 17Kt FBF, 50Kt FBF and 150Kt FBF aswell apart from the vintage 200 KT Entry vehicles which was used for its near obsolete Agni 1 in the 1980's .

Indian BGRV easily accommodates Ballast, Heat shields,exojets and actuators without compromising on the warheads firepower capability.

We do have the technology of an MIRV. How else was the PSLV able to launch 10 independent satellites into different orbital altitudes with pin point precision?