Agni-IV to be test-fired tomorrow

[ashok321]

http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/Agni-IV-to-be-test-fired-tomorrow/article16971538.ece

India’s strategic, ballistic missile, Agni-IV, will be flight-tested from a road-mobile launcher on the Abdul Kalam Island (earlier called Wheeler Island), off Damra village on the Odisha coast, on Monday.

The tri-Services’ Strategic Forces Command (SFC), which is entrusted with India’s nuclear weapons, will fire the missile.

Agni-IV is a two-stage, surface-to-surface missile that is 20 meters long and weighs 17 tonnes.


It can carry a one-tonne nuclear warhead over a distance of 4,000 km. The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) designed and developed the missile.

Successful launches

Five earlier launches of Agni-IV in 2011, 2012, 2014 (two test-flights) and 2015 were successful in a row. The Army has already deployed the missile. It was earlier called Agni Prime.

The DRDO successfully test-fired Agni-V, with a range of more than 5,000 km from a canister mounted on a road-mobile launcher on the Abdul Kalam Island on December 26, 2016.

 

[Kinetic]

Agni-4 should be shorter, rests are ok, only 17 ton with 4000 km range.

 

[fitpOsitive]

Nice.

 

[Gregor Clegane]

Agni-4 should be shorter, rests are ok, only 17 ton with 4000 km range.

Agreed.
They should make it thicker instead.

 

[Qutb-ud-din Aybak]

Version V tested before Version IV. Excellent going.

 

[sathya]

Version 4 is also 2A, with composite second stage reducing the weight ..
Version 4 is going to be tested by SFC I think

 

[kaykay]

Version V tested before Version IV. Excellent going.

Agni-4 is already operational and deployed while Agni-5 is yet to be fully operational( now it will be aftet last test)

 

[Sloth 22]

Version V tested before Version IV. Excellent going.

The A5 was tested by a development agency.

The A4 to be tested is by the user, the SFC.