After Shourya ,now focus shifts to K-4 Missiles

[sandilanaresh]

Another shoddy reporting...K-4 is not a modified Agni-3. Its a totally new series of Missiles...
Two series of BMs are being developed- K and Agni..

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[Kinetic]

Just curious : why did DRDo choose the no 4 as successor of 15 in the K-series ?

No public info about it. May be there are some reasons. may be K-4 is an early project than K-15. We have very limited info about India's submarine launched missiles.

 

[jha]

Rite.


Wrong. There are some misinformation about this. let clear it...

Dr. Saraswat headed Prithvi development programmes in the 90s. After that he headed the BMD programme and now DRDO chief. He has nothing to do with Agni project. Agni missile development programme (Agni-TD, Agni-1 and Agni-2) was headed by R.N. Agarwal for long time. As he was the director of ASL, the lab responsible for Agni series. Now there are little info who spearheaded 'Kalam' series and which ab was responsible for that.

Above all Dr. Saraswat is the DRDO chief he cannot and will not stop or delay any project. And it is BMD programme and his leadership quality that led him to the top not Agni series.


Now on pls forget that wrong info spreaded by Sandip Unnithan.


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As as angeldemon_007 mentioned it is not Kalam's baby, the name given in honor. Neither they are advanced than Agni series. They are different.

Sandeep had also reported the no. of missiles to be carried on Arihanth wrongly..

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[Veeru]

Just curious : why did DRDo choose the no 4 as successor of 15 in the K-series ?

Because its Agni 4.

 

[Kinetic]

Sandeep had also reported the no. of missiles to be carried on Arihanth wrongly..

Yes, he is reliable and has some inside info but sometimes feed wrong as well.

Because its Agni 4.

No. K and Agni series are different. Most possibly Agni-2P was Agni-4.

 

[IND151]

^^^
Yes...


I agree. Also the k series missiles had nothing to do with Agni series. Agni series is Saraswat's baby and K series is other program but because of Saraswat k series program is facing problems because it was agni that helped him reach the top but if someone builds a better missile his limelight will get overshadowed but armed forces like k series (k4/ k15 /Sagarika / Shaurya).

according to Livefist K series is named after Kalam.

K 4's payload is 1 ton while agni 3's 1.5 tons.

 

[HZR2011]

according to Livefist K series is named after Kalam.

K 4's payload is 1 ton while agni 3's 1.5 tons.

K4 hypersonic is based on Shaurya...so i would not call it a complete new system....It is a modification of shaurya..

 

[Kinetic]

K4 hypersonic is based on Shaurya...so i would not call it a complete new system....It is a modification of shaurya..

I thought K-4 is a larger IRBM. There are significant differences between the two.

 

[Dash]

K4 hypersonic is based on Shaurya...so i would not call it a complete new system....It is a modification of shaurya..

Shaurya is a Cruise missile where K4 will be a SLBM. these are two different class and hence will have no similarity.
K4 is touted to have MIRVs as well so think how its going to be different.

 

[Dharmachakra]

To clear a lot of doubts here,I am spreading what I got to know.

A-IV is the sub launched variant of A-III. But its completely redesigned with composite motor casings and high density propellants,......
Later A-IV got modified into K-IV just to go with the flow of new series of Sub-launched missiles.
If one has to go by the insider news, K-IV has already been tested from land once to validate its stage parameters. Next test will from the sub-merged pontoon.

There is another version in development unclearly known as K-VI with range of over 6000km for sub-launch expected to be flight tested by 2015-2016 time frame.

Also from the next Arihant class, they will come with a min of 8 tubes for K-IV all with the same base diameter of 2.3m tubes to accomodate either K-15 or K-IV/K-VI.

 

[Water Car Engineer]

K4 hypersonic is based on Shaurya...so i would not call it a complete new system....It is a modification of shaurya..

No, this is a bigger missile. Based on the Agni 3.

 

[lepziboy]

^^going by this report its already been tested the second time last january 2011 but not aired

 

[angeldemon_007]

Dr. Saraswat headed Prithvi development programmes in the 90s. After that he headed the BMD programme and now DRDO chief.

Oh yes. Thanx for this. I didn't remember exactly. Yes Saraswat got popular because of our first missile aka Prithvi.

Now there are little info who spearheaded 'Kalam' series and which ab was responsible for that.

Yeah this project went simultaneously with ATV project. The whole thing was kept under rap.

Above all Dr. Saraswat is the DRDO chief he cannot and will not stop or delay any project. And it is BMD programme and his leadership quality that led him to the top not Agni series.

Yeah sorry about Agni misinformation. But its true the success of K series is threatening Saraswat. Just look at the project. These people have got maximum success rate (BMD program also has somewhat similar rate) and the missiles are smaller and easy to use, more accurate. I mean these missiles are showing the progress we have made in this field.

 

[mojojo]

according to Livefist K series is named after Kalam.

K 4's payload is 1 ton while agni 3's 1.5 tons.

The payload of 1 & 1.5 ton mentioned is actually to cover up the real range of the missile. The nuclear warheads are being miniaturized to an extent that it csan weigh only 500 kg to 750 Kg. You can then guess the actual range!!! . Our scientist have now crossed the initial learning curve and the development of industrial base, now onwards we can expect new missiles with shortest time between design to induction.

 

[Kinetic]

Oh yes. Thanx for this. I didn't remember exactly. Yes Saraswat got popular because of our first missile aka Prithvi.

Not just Prithvi, he headed India's most complex missile programme BMD. Above all he has good leadership quality, there are many examples if this.

Yeah sorry about Agni misinformation. But its true the success of K series is threatening Saraswat. Just look at the project. These people have got maximum success rate (BMD program also has somewhat similar rate) and the missiles are smaller and easy to use, more accurate. I mean these missiles are showing the progress we have made in this field.

Still do not know what is the reason behind such thought. If a project is successful it does not have any implication on other projects and persons. This is a complete misinformation spread by Unnithan. Pls forget it.