Canistered A 5 Launch in 1st Half of 2013, All Agnis to become Road Mobile

[IND151]

^^ In this video Topol M launching satellite, Canister dropped its cap before erecting.

I think same method is used in case of launch of Large BMs from Canister.

 

[Dillinger]

I hesitate to mention this since I cannot comment upon the veracity of the following statement but Prasun Sengupta claims that the Agni-5 missile itself weighs only about 23-24 tonnes. He claims that the 50 tonnes weight being quoted all over the news articles on the web and in the papers is the weight of the complete system, as in it "is the total weight of the Agni-5, its cannister & its TELAR-based communications & fire-control system, i.e. the complete weapon system." He claims that, "the figures are all listed in the DRDO’s annual products directory, a copy of which I had collected last week during my visit to the DRDO pavilion at Kolkata’s Salt Lake Stadium Grounds." Furthermore he states that that is how the DRDO publishes its figures, that is to say that when Mr. Sarawath gave out the 50 tonnes figure he was referring to the complete and deliverable version of the system including all components. He further states that the confusion around the weight of the missile has been caused by journalists who are not familiar with DRDO's proclivities and are not well versed in the concerned field. The following link shall take you to his blog where you can read his replies directed towards members ("BHASWAR and NAGARAJAN") who had shot forth queries regarding this topic. More accurately refer to his reply on January 10, 2013 10:59 PM (TRISHUL: Snapshots Of DRDO Exhibits At ISC's 'Pride Of India' Expo In Kolkata). Do the senior members find any merit in these statements? IMO, Mr. Prasun has a hit and miss record with these things, often times he can be astonishingly accurate in stating facts and his analysis and then sometimes he can be way off the mark.

 

[trinity]

I couldn;t believe they wasted 10 yrs fiddling with rail designs. Rail designs are total waste of time not just based on the operating complexity but the strategic persepctive. Thank God they pushed towards road mobile designs.

 

[IND151]

I hesitate to mention this since I cannot comment upon the veracity of the following statement but Prasun Sengupta claims that the Agni-5 missile itself weighs only about 23-24 tonnes. He claims that the 50 tonnes weight being quoted all over the news articles on the web and in the papers is the weight of the complete system, as in it "is the total weight of the Agni-5, its cannister & its TELAR-based communications & fire-control system, i.e. the complete weapon system." He claims that, "the figures are all listed in the DRDO’s annual products directory, a copy of which I had collected last week during my visit to the DRDO pavilion at Kolkata’s Salt Lake Stadium Grounds." Furthermore he states that that is how the DRDO publishes its figures, that is to say that when Mr. Sarawath gave out the 50 tonnes figure he was referring to the complete and deliverable version of the system including all components. He further states that the confusion around the weight of the missile has been caused by journalists who are not familiar with DRDO's proclivities and are not well versed in the concerned field. The following link shall take you to his blog where you can read his replies directed towards members ("BHASWAR and NAGARAJAN") who had shot forth queries regarding this topic. More accurately refer to his reply on January 10, 2013 10:59 PM (TRISHUL: Snapshots Of DRDO Exhibits At ISC's 'Pride Of India' Expo In Kolkata). Do the senior members find any merit in these statements? IMO, Mr. Prasun has a hit and miss record with these things, often times he can be astonishingly accurate in stating facts and his analysis and then sometimes he can be way off the mark.

You are referring to this perhaps

To BHASWAR & NAGARAJAN: No, I don’t have any external links. The figures are all listed in the DRDO’s annual products directory, a copy of which I had collected last week during my visit to the DRDO pavilion at Kolkata’s Salt Lake Stadium Grounds. 50 tonnes is the total weight of the Agni-5, its cannister & its TELAR-based communications & fire-control system, i.e. the complete weapon system. That’s how the DRDO publishes its figures. But if the ‘desi’ mass-media misinterprets this as being the launch-weight of Agni-5 (since the ‘desi’ journalists have yet to see the cannister or the TELAR & are therefore erroneously assuming that the published weight figures pertain to only what has been visually revealed, i.e.the missile), then whose fault is it? The error then gets compiunded when certain analysts use such erroneous figures to be their own comparative analysis, whose fundamentals & foundations are all totally off-the-mark.

 

[IND151]

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