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Cool paint job man...

I dont know y...but the 5 letters "INDIA" on the missile just gives me goosebumps. :D
 
New Delhi, May 17 (ANI): After the successful launch of the Agni II missile, India is all set to test fire its first Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile, Agni-V, in Mach-April 2011.

Agni V is being designed by adding a third composite stage to the two-stage 3,500-km Agni-III, having a range of over 5000 km to carry multiple warheads and will have countermeasures against anti-ballistic missile systems.

It is a three-stage solid fuelled missile with composite motor casing in the third stage. Two stages of this missile will be made of composite material. The Agni V will be the first canisterised, road-mobile missile in India.

Buoyed by the success of the Agni II missile, Dr W Selvamurthy, DRDO’s Chief Controller Research and Development, said: “We are now working on Agni V, which has a range capacity of more than 5,000 kilometres. It is a strategic missile being developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation.”

“It will be ready by next year. We hope during March-April next year. It will be an Inter Continental Ballistic Missile.”

The Strategic Force Command on Monday successfully test fired Agni II, an Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile (IRBM) with a range of 2000 km, from Wheeler Island off the coast of Orissa at 9:18 a.m., meeting all mission objectives.

“Agni II is a strategic missile, which has a range capability of 2,000 km. It can carry a nuclear warhead,” said Dr Selvamurthy.

“We have successfully test fired this today. The Strategic Force Command has carried this out. They have done the whole operation themselves and our scientists have been observing the whole operation.

“It has gone very well. All the mission objectives have been successfully met. This has been inducted in the Armed Forces. It was successfully test fired from the Wheeler Island,” he added.

The Agni missile is a family of medium to inter-continental range ballistic missiles developed by India. It comprises of Agni I, Agni II, Agni III and Agni V. (ANI)

India to fire over 5000 km range Agni V in 2011
 
India ready to test 5,000 km range Agni-V by 2011

Agni-V is a 5,000-km-plus missile and we are planning to carry out its first test within a year. After Agni-III and Agni-V, as far as cities in China and Pakistan are concerned, there will be no target that we want to hit but can't hit," DRDO Chief V K Saraswat said on Wednesday, adding that the "missile was already out of the drawing boards."

The test-firing of the Agni-V missile will also help India to join the elite club on nations with the capability to produce Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs). Saraswat said the missile would be capable of being launched from canisters, which will help it to be launched from multiple platforms. With certain modifications, canister launchers enable ballistic missiles to be fired from ships and other moving platforms.

Comparing the Agni-III with Chinese 2,500 km range DF-21 and DF-25, Agni programme Director Avinash Chander said in terms of "accuracy and technology-wise", the indigenous missiles were better than the ones in the neighbourhood. He added that Agni-V would be a three-stage missile and it was in the sub-systems testing phase.

"The missile will have composite rocket motors instead of metal rocket motors. That technology has been realised 90 per cent as we have already tested it and are fine-tuning it to meet our requirements. It is in the sub-systems testing stage," he said.

Chander said the Agni-V is a derivative of Agni-III and 60 per cent of it was ready and the rest will have to be developed. "Agni-V will be the first missile that will have a three-stage propulsion system. It will have the same warhead and navigation system as that of the Agni-III, has the same diameter of 2 meters and is only half a metre longer than it," he added.

Asked if the country was planning to develop missiles of longer ranges, the DRDO Chief said, "In last 15 years, DRDO and India have come to a level of maturity in missile technology that we can build missiles of any range in these classes of systems mobile, semi-mobile and static if we need that."

He added the range and lethality of missiles was based on the requirements projected by the security establishment and "whether you make a 5,000 kilometre class missile or a longer range missile, 99 per cent of the technology and building blocks of the two are common."

Commenting on the successful test-firing of the Agni-III on February 7, the DRDO chief V K Saraswat said the "development" phase of the missile was over and it was ready for induction into the armed forces. The DRDO Chief said looking at the class and capabilities of the Agni-III, "there is no need for us to build missiles and keep storing them. There is no need and there is no requirement." He said "building and storing" missiles had a tremendous impact on "efforts and resources" and it was better to have building blocks of technology ready and have the capability as and when required in the shortest possible time.

Asked why was the missile test-fired only four times before induction, he said India had made advancements in design and simulation capabilities and a limited number of tests were required to prove the system.

On the problems faced by the Agni-II and Agni-III during their earlier tests, Chander said, "we have a problem and we have identified it. In both the cases, it was the quality-related issue and we are working to address those issues." He said the Agni-III was capable of being launched from both rail and road launchers and was made up of composite material.

Chander said the missile will be now tested by the armed forces as users and will be manufactured by Bharat Dynamics Limited in Hyderabad. The missile has been built with support of over 150 industrial partners, 20 DRDO laboratories and 20 other national level institutes, he added.

India ready to test 5,000 km range Agni-V by 2011

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India ready to test 5,000 km range Agni-V by 2011
 
He said the Agni-III was capable of being launched from both rail and road launchers and was made up of composite material.

This is the most important thing.
 
Well, I wish they maintain the time frame. It will also be the first MIRV missile for India.

The Agni V will be the first canisterised, road-mobile missile in India.

Wrong. Agni-V is not the first canisterised, road mobile missile for India. Shourya is the first canisterised, road mobile ballistic missile. It can carry 1000 kg upto 750 km away. Brahmos though is a short range cruise missile it is also canistersied and road mobile.

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1. The day we successfully induct and deploy Agni V in mountain tunnels.

2. Deploy all the 3 Arihant nuclear submarines with 700 kilometers+ range, nuclear capable Sagarika missile.

3. And stationed over around 8-10 squadrons of Su 30 MKI + MMRCA/Tejas in north east & Andaman Nicobar islands.

China will forget its all the aggressions.

Then we both can live with peace and work for our people.
 
it was actually a morale booster for Indin Armed forces..

After the last failure in night trials , it is a must win situation for our stragetic force command as well as DRDO and they made it perfect ...


Failure in night doesn't make any sense. Ballistic missiles have there own guidance systems and they must be linked with radars and satellite.

All weather 24x7 operability is must for second strike, DRDO should sort this out and test all the missiles and radars for night operation.
 
Failure in night doesn't make any sense. Ballistic missiles have there own guidance systems and they must be linked with radars and satellite.

All weather 24x7 operability is must for second strike, DRDO should sort this out and test all the missiles and radars for night operation.


may be in night one of our guys pressed wrong swich... :cheesy:
night test is not for agni it may be for IA... [just kidding]
 
The reports said that the launch was via a rail mobile system. Is it only me who cannot make that out?


Take a look at a bottom left side of first picture. seems like a wheel. Also if you see the eractor tower, it aligns well with those wheel one in retracted position.
 
India to fire over 5000 km range Agni V in 2011

Monday, May 17, 2010, 13:10 [IST]


New Delhi, May 17 (ANI): After the successful launch of the Agni II missile, India
is all set to test fire its first Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile, Agni-V, in Mach-April 2011.


Agni V is being designed by adding a third composite stage to the two-stage 3,500-km Agni-III, having a range of over 5000 km to carry multiple warheads and will have countermeasures against anti-ballistic missile systems.

It is a three-stage solid fuelled missile with composite motor casing in the third stage. Two stages of this missile will be made of composite material. The Agni V will be the first canisterised, road-mobile missile in India.

Buoyed by the success of the Agni II missile, Dr W Selvamurthy, DRDO's Chief Controller Research and Development, said: "We are now working on Agni V, which has a range capacity of more than 5,000 kilometres. It is a strategic missile being developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation."

"It will be ready by next year. We hope during March-April next year. It will be an Inter Continental Ballistic Missile."


The Strategic Force Command on Monday successfully test fired Agni II, an Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile (IRBM) with a range of 2000 km, from Wheeler Island off the coast of Orissa at 9:18 a.m., meeting all mission objectives.

"Agni II is a strategic missile, which has a range capability of 2,000 km. It can carry a nuclear warhead," said Dr Selvamurthy.

"We have successfully test fired this today. The Strategic Force Command has carried this out. They have done the whole operation themselves and our scientists have been observing the whole operation.

"It has gone very well. All the mission objectives have been successfully met. This has been inducted in the Armed Forces. It was successfully test fired from the Wheeler Island," he added.

The Agni missile is a family of medium to inter-continental range ballistic missiles developed by India. It comprises of Agni I, Agni II, Agni III and Agni V. By Praful Kumar Singh (ANI)



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