Agni-IV test-flight a ‘stupendous success'

[perplexed]

You are over stretching here ...
I think the range of the missile as quoted here is scalar i.e 3000KM.
The actual distance traveled by the missile , first going up through the atmosphere and then down is much larger than 3000KM.

Either the paper mis quoted the time and distance of flight, or there is some thing else wrong here ...

range of a projectile is the horizontal distance from source... what are you talking of ?

 

[LiberalAtheist]

^^ no the Agni IV range with a 1000kg warhead is 3,500km the test however utilized a 800kg warhead to a 3,000km range for test purposes the next test may use the actual 1,000kg warhead to range of 3,500km or more because the Agni IV range can go up with a lighter warhead there are different RV's for Indian missiles the vintage 1990's RV used on the Agni 1 and Agni 2 are not used on the more modern Agni 3 and Agni 4

you can find more info on here if ur confused http://www.indiaresearch.org/Shourya_Missile.pdf

 

[faithfulguy]

It is no doubt a great success but such speeds are common for missiles of large ranges.... some russian/chinese missiles have been known to touch speeds of 13000 km/hr speed in terminal phases... ie. ~3500 m/s ie 11 Mach

ps. It will be extremely difficult for a quick reaction missile to touch such high speeds in short time. That is why it becomes impractical to design a terminal phase ABM shield for ICBMs...

That is why there is no reliable terminal phase defense against ICBMs. They are either mid course or boost phase defenses.

 

[ramu]

This means that the speed of the missile is 3000000 / 1200 = 2500m / sec. which is about 7.5 TIMES faster than the speed of sound i.e 330 m / sec.

WoW what a great success !!!

Looks like a missile made by Rajni Kant industries !

The speed of the missile on its way down to target will be much more than Mach 10 as it will be accelerating and gaining velocity. Call it whatever but it is owner's pride and neighbour's envy.

 

[ramu]

You are over stretching here ...
I think the range of the missile as quoted here is scalar i.e 3000KM.
The actual distance traveled by the missile , first going up through the atmosphere and then down is much larger than 3000KM.

Either the paper mis quoted the time and distance of flight, or there is some thing else wrong here ...

The trajectory was intentionally skewed to a more acute - vertical orientation in order to make the missile travels the longest distance in the vertical dimension. About 1800 KMs was travelled through the vertical component alone.

Pause the video and check mission control parameters to get more insight.

 

[ramu]

That is why there is no reliable terminal phase defense against ICBMs. They are either mid course or boost phase defenses.

True. I think ICBMs even if used in ranges between 2500 and 5000 KMs are hard to defend against. For India this is such a good deterrent against its powerful neighbour.