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From an interview of one BARC scientist at the time nuclear test in Pokhran in 1998.
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700 warheads annually!!! Wow!The game changer on India's part will be the invention FAST BREEDER REACTOR.
Once it is done then according to experts India can produce 700 warheads annually.
I meant was sleeker.Seeker on Surface to surface missile? Are you talking of terminal guidance?
How can it be sleeker? That shall substentially increase the heoght of missile. It shall be fatter may be with all composite. Avinash chander said that warheads released from missile may futher travel to 1000 KM. So effectively the range shall be 7000 KM + atleast.
Yep the Mysore plant is specially to for tritium.Regarding the tritium, there was an article in TOI. India has gathered a huge quantity weighing in hundreds of kilograms from a very specialized techaniq wich Americans tried and failed. Few grams of tritium is enough for one thermo nuclear device. @locker can educate us more on the subject metter.
Perhaps what i understand is the present Agni 5 being a direct derivative of Agni 3 is a bulky in size..Lemme show the illustration
I meant was sleeker.
The programme is a long process in which Agni series is beijg installed with new technology and composites in order to make it thin so that it should not be reduced to certain terrains.
Yes the warheads will not be unitary.
The modern ICBM feature separating warhead buses.
The MIRVes buses will be able to strike targets beyond the missiles range because of its the bus can maneuver and glide to extended range than the missiles range.
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This is fan art that was shown before Agni 5 was shown.
Agni 5 doesnt have welds separating each stage.
All 4 are real pictures. About which FAn art are you talking about?
The image I quoted, which has welds separating each stage.
you posted 4 images and all seems real.
\Perhaps what i understand is the present Agni 5 being a direct derivative of Agni 3 is a bulky in size..Lemme show the illustration
Whereas Agni4 beinga derivative of Agni 2 is sleeker and less bulky as lots of weight ahs been actually stripped off as part of "sleek" missile. Agni 2 weighs around 18 tonnes whereas Agni 4 around 17 tonnes. Yet the range vs payload wise the increase in distance of coverage has helped Agni 4.
Agni 5 by contrast is a behemoth at 50 tonnes. Thus this missile becomes completely suitable only from land usage .. meaning either silos or via specialised trains. A comparision versus other missile shows a similar weight missile ranges warhead and weight.
I firmly believe Agni 6 may be taking over the Agni 4 design features. Perhaps using Agni 5 to change the mass and enabling it to fit into a submarine thereby completely achieveing the triad's lethality. Of course with MIRVs.
While researching i did find something. i am pasting it here
"In May 2008 Indian scientists of DRDO had announced that they have crafted and roped a path-breaking technology that increases the range of Indian missiles and satellite launch vehicles by minimum 40 per cent. The improved range is made possible by putting a special-purpose coating of chromium-based material to a rocket's blunt nose cone.
The chromium-based material acts as a reactive-ablative coating that forms a thin low density gaseous layer at the tip of the rocket as it touches the hypersonic level; this super-heated gas layer reduces drag by 47 percent, thereby allowing range enhancements at least 40 percentage point It has been confirmed that this technology will be incorporated in the upcoming Agni deployments after having undergone ranging and calibration tests."
Interestingly why not utilise this tech to other missiles also needs to be seen. I am sure this can enhance most of missile ranges by a good max 40%. The only question how many missiles of india achieves say hypersonic speed at terminal ranges or during flight? any details would be appreciated.
you need to understand that ICBMs have multiple state.Sleeker missile means more length to acomodate the required fuel and lower dia motor which shall generate lower power. Ths means lower velocity and higher consumption in gravitational force area. It seems impractical to me.
Missile shall.
The new maysore plant (if you are talking about) is i think uranium purification plant and not the plant to extract tritium from heavy water. There is an article on PDF quoting american think tank regarding maysore plant, This lant shall generate sufficient fuel to fuel our whole N submarine fleet as well as make 30 N bomb.
you need to understand that ICBMs have multiple state.
The Agni 5 has been designed with the addition of the third composite state unlike Agni3
If you look at american ICBMs Minuteman, Peacekeeper, they all are more than one stage despite being not bulky as our Agni series
If a missile has more than one stage there may be more than one boost phase interspersed with several ballistic (coasting) phases where the missile follows its trajectory.
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The enrichment will result in tritium production which can be used in SLBM for two stage TN weapons to aide our growing new nuclear submarines.
I said early Agni series were bulky as compared to new versions.There is no confusion about the stages. I am just arguing that Missile can not be very sleek. Because making them sleek would invariabally result into increasing the height of Missile to acomodate required fuel. Plus decreasing in dia of motor shall constraine Power generation. That is why A2 has 1 m dia motor, A4 has 1.3 m dia motor and A3 and A5 has 2 m DIa motor.
Agni series is not bulky. A4 is among the light weight long rane missile. Weight of A3 was reduced to 22 tom from Initial verson weighing 48 tons. A5s weight is also very low and in range of 23 to 26 tons.
Why would tritium be used in N submarine? It will be used in SLBMsUranium enrichment is a process of separating U235 from other Urenium isotops. How can Tritium be produced out of that? More over what is the use of tritium in fueling the N submarine? We do not have a fusion reactors in which the tritium may be used as a fuel. We can only use Uranium and plutonium as the fuel.