India Capable of Making Long Range Missiles

[kurup]

As per official sources, India is capable of developing missiles that can hit targets located more than 8,000 km away. “We will develop it as and when we see a need to develop a missile longer in range than Agni-V, we have the capability to do it,” said the Scientific Advisor to the Defence Minister V.K Saraswat. Since DRDO had already crossed the threshold of making a system with longer capability and developing its sub-systems, making a longer version of Agni-V would be easier.

In the recent past, India test fired the nuclear-capable Agni-V Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile that brought China within its reach with a strike range of over 5,000km. Agni-V had major propulsion blocks and a kind of aviation technology which makes it a suitable launch vehicle for sending small satellites into space. It is understood that work on the project has already commenced at the Indian Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO). The timeframe for its development has not yet been specified.

India Capable of Making Long Range Missiles » Indian Defence Review

 

[trinity]

You have to be proactive. If we just left it at that, when a crisis emerges, we would be stuck still developin such tech. So when posters moan that is no need for such missiles. Smack them up. We Indians live in a dangerous security environment for the past 1000 yrs. Time to wake up and toughen up. Think and plan ahead

 

[1ndy]

Yes we can make long range missile. We mastered the hardest part in missiles i.e 'propulsion and guidance'. We just need an extra stage to go farther and more faster electronics and more processing power to fall at target.

 

[Rajaraja Chola]

They have been repaeating this again and again. better demostrate it along with ASAP and keep the enemies at bay

 

[Gessler]

India has already made those missiles.

 

[timetravel]

India has already made those missiles.

thats right bro.. India already has missiles to cover the whole world from any point of India. Only thing is that they declare it in a progressive manner so that the world is not shocked

 

[Abingdonboy]

India is capable of doing A LOT of things, actually doing them is where sometimes India comes undone.

 

[Gessler]

thats right bro.. India already has missiles to cover the whole world from any point of India. Only thing is that they declare it in a progressive manner so that the world is not shocked

Hmmm...I wouldn't exactly say "whole world", but yes, we can cover whole of Asia and most of the world.

 

[Sergi]

Old news. I would say great news the day India successfully test 5000km range SLBM. As far as land base BM are concerned we are good. No need to increase the range which actually might be near 6500 km

 

[ironman1]

we should concentrate on MIRVs and ECMs and SLBMs now rather increasing the range !

 

[vsdoc]

A missile is of no use if the world does not know about it.

A missile is of no use unless the world sees it work.

Consistently and accurately.

 

[Gessler]

A missile is of no use if the world does not know about it.

A missile is of no use unless the world sees it work.

Consistently and accurately.

Testing the missile against a target dummy is safer and sends a stronger message than actually
using it to blow up the enemy first-hand.

Hence we need to test the missiles.

 

[vsdoc]

The testing is more than half the battle won.

It is 90% strategic and diplomatic and only 10% technical.