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Just found this on an Indian forum.
"India’s indigenously designed and produced integrated missile development programme started in the late 1980s and has successfully test-fired the Prithvi, Akash and Agni series of missiles. It started comprehensive tests of a missile defence system in 2009 using radar technology, developed by the DRDO jointly with Israel and France. Agni-VI, which has multiple nuclear warheads, is in the development stage and has a range of 6,000 km. However, Agni-I, II, III, IV, V, the submarine-launched K-15 Sagarika and its land-based version Shaurya carry only one nuclear warhead. The supersonic cruise missile BrahMos can carry one conventional warhead. Agni VI’s design and engineering is finished.DRDO scientist have succeeded in anchoring four or six warheads on it, and mastered control over the dispersal pattern, which would release warheads one after another so that if one warhead hits one place, the next would fall 100 km away and so on. Both Agni V and Agni VI have three launch stages, are powered by solid propellants, and have a diameter of two metres. But Agni V weighs 50 tonnes and is 17.5 metres long, while Agni VI weighs 65-70-tonnes and would be 20 metres long. It can be taken by road to launch destinations and can even blast off from trucks."
India's Space War - The New Indian Express
"India’s indigenously designed and produced integrated missile development programme started in the late 1980s and has successfully test-fired the Prithvi, Akash and Agni series of missiles. It started comprehensive tests of a missile defence system in 2009 using radar technology, developed by the DRDO jointly with Israel and France. Agni-VI, which has multiple nuclear warheads, is in the development stage and has a range of 6,000 km. However, Agni-I, II, III, IV, V, the submarine-launched K-15 Sagarika and its land-based version Shaurya carry only one nuclear warhead. The supersonic cruise missile BrahMos can carry one conventional warhead. Agni VI’s design and engineering is finished.DRDO scientist have succeeded in anchoring four or six warheads on it, and mastered control over the dispersal pattern, which would release warheads one after another so that if one warhead hits one place, the next would fall 100 km away and so on. Both Agni V and Agni VI have three launch stages, are powered by solid propellants, and have a diameter of two metres. But Agni V weighs 50 tonnes and is 17.5 metres long, while Agni VI weighs 65-70-tonnes and would be 20 metres long. It can be taken by road to launch destinations and can even blast off from trucks."
India's Space War - The New Indian Express
If you want I can post some pics.
