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Cost of an Agni 5...? Some sources mention cost as $500 million, while it is likely that is the cost of the entire project.
Agni is an Strategic weapon and the benefits far outweigh the costs. For example the Agni if launched into a city like Shanghai, can cause massive economic losses of billions of dollars easily. That's a pretty big deterrence if you ask me. Not to mention rendering the whole place radioactive and hence unusable for decades.
Some points to ponder over:
# With mass production, the costs may come down, however the numbers would be very low to make an impact. Our principle adversary is pakistan not china, and hence not many Agni-V would be in service. Most likely less than 50 just to put up a deterrence. Actually it would be even less since we don't have that many nuclear warheads to begin with to mate it not just with Agni but with Prithvi, Sagarika, Brahmos, Mirage-2000, Su-30MKI, Jaguar etc etc.. So don't expect much reduction in costs with the "mass production".
# To put things in perspective.. Number of nuclear warheads
U.K - 225
France - 300
China ~ 750
India ~ 150
Israel ~ 120
Pakistan ~ 100
And who can forget the crazy Ivans & the Yankees
Agni is an Strategic weapon and the benefits far outweigh the costs. For example the Agni if launched into a city like Shanghai, can cause massive economic losses of billions of dollars easily. That's a pretty big deterrence if you ask me. Not to mention rendering the whole place radioactive and hence unusable for decades.
Some points to ponder over:
# With mass production, the costs may come down, however the numbers would be very low to make an impact. Our principle adversary is pakistan not china, and hence not many Agni-V would be in service. Most likely less than 50 just to put up a deterrence. Actually it would be even less since we don't have that many nuclear warheads to begin with to mate it not just with Agni but with Prithvi, Sagarika, Brahmos, Mirage-2000, Su-30MKI, Jaguar etc etc.. So don't expect much reduction in costs with the "mass production".
# To put things in perspective.. Number of nuclear warheads
U.K - 225
France - 300
China ~ 750
India ~ 150
Israel ~ 120
Pakistan ~ 100
And who can forget the crazy Ivans & the Yankees