I'm saying that. As a matter of fact most ballistic missiles terminate boost phase much before reaching apogee.
I was not taking about boost phase... I was talking about the 2nd stage of Prithvi.. which is liquid.
Iskander is powered throughout the flight except for the terminal stage where it dives down and the EO seeker (in a variant) identifies the target.
As is Prithvi... Its liquid engine powers it all the way until it takes an almost vertical (80degree) dive on the target.
The stabilizing wings in Prithvi are meant to provide lift in the terminal stage, so that maneuvering is possible and more lateral distance is covered.
100-150km away is not terminal stage... It is mid course... in terminal stage it is almost a dive as I showed you in the photo.
The HTV-2's outer body is designed to sustain the high temperatures of hypersonic flight. Since the nose tip doesn't takes most of the heat as happens in most ballistic missiles, the whole body including wings must have heat shielding. Something which Prithvi doesn't have, and besides it has FOUR delta wings, which are designed for generating lift in atmosphere, not sustaining hypersonic velocities. It would be a disaster to make it travel at Mach 5.
Neither do the scramjet missiles have those heat shield... other than that they also have smaller wings like Prithvi.
May be you could explain the disaster to them since they are testing them at velocities way beyond mach 5 and plan it to make it about or more than double of that.
Stop making baseless and ridiculous claims.
Oh...so ummm why not just replace the liquid fuel motor with a solid fuel one and maintain the supreme hypersonic quasi-ballistic-with-four-delta-wings design?
Dimentions... Flight performance... SLBM capability to name a few... I cannot explain all that in a day... you should see the K-4 dimension to note the similarity it shares.
Not accepting, eh? Dude, if there were more failures, why not disclose them all by saying it failed all tests?
The guy pointed out the exact tests, thats it. MOVE ON!
The guy said the missile was a failure and it failed so bad that it was to be exported back... even the latest attempt to make it successful failed again with Shaheen guidance... I don't know which nation other than Pakistan and NK keeps failed Ballistic missile mounted with Nuclear warheads as a strategic deterrence.
You mean BR, right?
BR din't post about failed Ghauri missile... get some life.
Here in Pakistan we have the ISI-syndrome, most people who know the technical (but not harmful) details abstain from sharing it.
For busting PR.. yes.
Ummm why would anybody want an Agni-III motor for a Agni-II payload? Get over it, the solid fuel motors are meeting current requirements...when the need arises, more efficient ones will be developed.
As a matter of fact they already are being developed, as in Shaheen-IA.
Shaheen-1A which is almost the same as Shaheen I.... yes it might be one hell of a motor 
And by the way that chromium coating does not creates vaccum, it creates a less dense medium so that the air does not come directly in contact with the ReV.
And both serve the purpose... isn't it ?
I know, but the methods are quite difficult, not easily achievable by India.
No modern missile system depends entirely on one guidance system. IMU (INS), Satellite Navigation, Stellar Guidance (for > IRBMs) , DSMAC/TERCOM (in case of cruise missiles) all work in coherence.
I thought Iran could have such devices.. and down American UAV... even NK.
North Korean jamming of GPS shows system's weakness - Washington Times
What are you talking here... Indian direct energy weapons can electronically fry the satellites in their orbits... and you are still struck in GPS jamming.
You specifically mentioned GPS hence... the accuracy is again crap without GPS.
People like you claimed the same stuff just a few years before from those developments, but they were surprised. Of course now it seems all "we-expected-it" stuff.
First, nobody on the internet know the number of Shaheen-II missiles. Although you could ask your BR guys how many 6-axle TELs they have seen on GE.
Second, Shaheen-II had probably the best record of test flights, thats why after 4 years and 6 flights, it was made operational.
Thats the problem with you guys... I have some actual data on few of of the Shaheen 2 tests... which were monitored by our radars.... but who can explain that to you people.. according to your logic Ghauri was a more successful missile since it made it out 13 out of 13 times until some one comes out and says the truth.
Bhai meray Pakistan has 6 other ballistic missiles capable of delivering nuclear weapons besides Ghauri.
Thodi unhain bhi suna dijiye.
I was talking about Bragging you see.
The 8 minutes claim is for after the launch has occurred. The launch preparations last for hours, even for solid-fueled missiles.
Reliability doubts are one thing, they don't change facts.
The reaction time counts in the preparation time fort launch... even the communication time is considered... in a war the enemy won't wait for you to fuel up the missile and erect it on the launch pad.
Ah, the "authentic" Internet sources...anyways if its all about the internet sources, then I'm out of this discussion.
