India will launch Agni VI next, says DRDO chief

[SpArK]

India will launch Agni VI next, says DRDO chief​

The Defence Research Development Organisation is preparing the roadmap to 2050. The Agni V was just the beginning, and work is already in progress for the advanced version — the Agni VI — a multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicle (MIRV).

This was disclosed by Dr Vijay Kumar Saraswat, director-general of DRDO, secretary of the department of defence R&D and scientific adviser to the defence minister, on the sidelines of a felicitation ceremony organised by FAPCCI CEO Forum in Hyderabad on Saturday.

Still basking in the glory of the intercontinental range ballistic missile, the Agni V, Dr Saraswat dismissed the accusations of Army chief General V.K. Singh regarding corruption or commissions in arms deals, asserting that the procedure laid down for finalising the arms deals left little scope for corruption.

On the light combat aircraft (LCA), Dr Saraswat said that the LCA Mk-1 would be ready next year, while the Mk-2 would be completed by 2016 and the LCA Navy by 2014. He added that work had been going on simultaneously for all these aircraft versions.

Reflecting on two decades taken for completing the LCA, Dr Saraswat said that the carbon fibre was not indigenously available in India, and that even the USA took 22 years to develop its stealth aircraft.

Following the denial of material and technology from countries like the USA, the indigenously developed Agni V took three years from drawing board to launch pad.

DRDO officials claim that another ICBM, a three-stage Agni VI missile, will be developed in another two years or so and will have an even longer range, up to 8,000 km to 10,000 km. The Agni VI will be sleeker than the Agni-V and capable of carrying at least 10 nuclear warheads, capable of targeting multiple targets at the same time.

The thrust will be once again on procuring the sub-systems from Indian industrial units, and a significant chunk of these will be from Hyderabad. The DRDO chief asked the industry to join forces with it in its various programmes till 2020 for projects worth more than Rs 3 lakh crore.


India will launch Agni VI next, says DRDO chief | Deccan Chronicle

 

[KS]

Agni VI sounds lame.

Give some new name chief.

 

[Neuro]

^^^^

Brahmastra would be a gud name

 

[BLEND]

BTW what is the RCS of LCA?

 

[Screambowl]

Agni VI sounds lame.

Give some new name chief.

how about 'Surya'?

 

[Kinetic]

The Defence Research Development Organisation is preparing the roadmap to 2050. The Agni V was just the beginning, and work is already in progress for the advanced version — the Agni VI — a multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicle (MIRV).

Thats the spirit. DRDO already started works on MIRV. I think they should consult with ISRO for that. They have good experience in this area. Once PSLV launched 10 satellites at a time.

DRDO had a project in 2010 called '3 ton space payload recovery'. Any idea what is that?

 

[lightoftruth]

article mentions Agni 6 as advanced version of Agni 5 having mirv isn't it a completely new missile (being slbm) ?

 

[Kinetic]

article mentions Agni 6 as advanced version of Agni 5 having mirv isn't it a completely new missile (being slbm) ?

Yes, it will be all composite two stage new missile not any advanced version of Agni-5. That is just general words.

 

[Ajaxpaul]

Sir Agni missile is launched

Which number ?

What ?

 

[Firemaster]

Yes, it will be all composite two stage new missile not any advanced version of Agni-5. That is just general words.

ICBM with just 2 stages?

 

[Screambowl]

kabhi kabhi i really laf on these interviews. diwali ka rocket thodi bana rahey hai yaar.

 

[pm modi]

i think abhimanyu or karna will be good

 

[SpArK]

i think abhimanyu or karna will be good

Got killed by kauravas.

Karna sided with kauravas.

no thanks

 

[curioususer]

agni 1 aur 4 ko kya hua?

 

[Skull and Bones]

angi 1 aur 4 ko kya hua?

Wo do maine bech diya.