India's 10,000 km Agni-VI missile to be ready by mid 2014

[Rajaraja Chola]

India's 10,000 km Agni-VI missile to be ready by mid 2014



While the length of the missile would be reportedly around 40 meters as against Agni-V’s 17.5 meter, its diameter will be 1.1 meter, which is almost half of Agni-V. The missile’s launch weight would be around 55 tonne.



“We are seriously contemplating to enhance the reach of our strategic missiles. The development of Agni-VI will be a step forward to accomplish the goal. With the present strength we are capable of developing the inter-continental ballistic missiles which can hit targets beyond the range of 10,000 km,” added the scientist.


Agni-VI to be ready by mid 2014 - South India - Orissa - ibnlive

Is this news credible?
Its diameter is 1.1 metres? Seriously?
I love to have a missile of that range, but will keep my fingers crossed, till the govt announces officially...

 

[RoYaL~GuJJaR]

Awesome!! If True!!!

We do need Missiles with +10,000 KM range!

And most importantly there can't be any better time for testing these missile

 

[DelhiDareDevil]

Wont happen, that mean we could strike USA now then.

 

[Holmes]

Excellent News indeed.

Let the Enemy fear from now own...YEAH !

UNSC keep us in or we'll kick U out!

 

[jaiind]

This would be great achievement after its maiden successful launch. .Before that there is scope to need the induction of SLBM A5 version. I think there is a need to do the more reliable and robust work on the ABM as more lethal system.

 

[Major.]

People who are interested in knowing secrets about indian missile and artillery plz look at post #19 3rd para of below link

http://www.defence.pk/forums/indian...tention-become-major-power-2.html#post2404821

In that link i have also uploaded a photo which are damn accurate with the news that are coming out nowadays....and this pic was there for almost 6-7 years ago....!!!


Hemant Kumar Rout is the best journalist, so far the missile tested in balsore... because he was first one to get news about Agni2prime in 2010, and many more.....And u people can have faith in him....But i am really sure the missile length is 14 rather than 40..... i think he has not heard his source properly....his source is a scientist in balsore test range....will give links of his accurate report of missile deviations, but declared as successful by DRDO.

 

[pakistanitarzan]

Good job India! 10k KM would be a badass ICBM!

 

[Major.]

More Missile Secrets lying online....!!!!

Links for proving the credibility of hemant kumar rout with regard to missile fired from balsore....he is 100% accurate

Agni-I 'deviates' by a whisker | Agni-I | | The New Indian Express
Prithvi-II to be test-fired on Friday | Prithvi 2 | Brahmos | The New Indian Express

And below are the info on development of missile's, which disclosed A-6, Prahaar etc and many more missile system for the first time in 2008 i took the info from BR forum but am forbidden to link it here....for interested it's in 2008 page of "Re: Indian Missile Technology Discussion - 27 March 2008"

Talk by Dr. Saraswat in IISc on 18th July 2008 Friday, on future missile directions in India.

Future missile technologies: Indian perspective
Dr. V K Saraswat
Part-I
He first started by describing the past of the missile program talking about the first Anti tank missile built in the 60s. He said that in the 60s-70s the Indian missile program had lot of constraints like economy, (underdeveloped R&D) in private industry, private-public partnership, interaction with academic institutions and lack of infrastructure. In spite of all these constraints his predecessors had done well and by the time he joined in the 80s, they had developed a sound base on which he built further.

From the past he then moved to the present describing the current programs, I will put the points I jotted down. Arun _S these are official figures.

Strategic missiles
Prithvi 1 - 150 Km
Prithvi 2 - 250 Km
Dhanush - 350 Km

Agni-1 700 Km 1000Kg warhead
Agni-2 2000 Km (Note 1000 Kg warhead assumed)
Agni-3 3000 Km (Note 1000 Kg warhead assumed)
RLG-INS has been used in these missiles.

Tactical missiles
Nag missile – Anti-tank 4 km Top attack with smokeless dual pulse motor, Fire and forget as well as LOAL versions.

Helina- 7Km Helicopter carried version, 8 Nag missiles per ALH, under research.

Trishul missile – SR quick reaction SAM with anti ship, anti-cruise anti-missile roles
12 Km range

Akash missile – 25 Km Medium Range SAM, Has gone into production. Rajendra phased array radar can target 10-12 targets while track 16-20 targets?? (I may have missed/misinterpreted something here)

Brahmos missile- has cold launch technique to enable vertical or angled launch from all kinds of platforms. Hi-lo profile <300Km range Lo-Lo profile ~ 150Km range.

Astra missile Mk1- Beyond visual range missile for LCA, Mirage-2000, Mig-29, Su-30 etc. Range 80 Kms

Astra missile Mk2- Range 100 Kms

Part-II

Future programs

Tactical missiles:
LRSAM: Range 70 Km, For IN. To be guided by the AESA radar in combat suit of P15A (MFSTAR)

MRSAM: is same as LRSAM, will be used by IAF, will be guided by rotating phased array radar

SRSAM: Range 15 Km, for IN & IAF, Vertical launch, Anti-missile and anti-aircraft.
I think these are Barak-II and Maitri projects respectively.

Strategic missiles:

Agni-3+: Range >5000 Km, Reaction time < 30secs, Cannisterized, Road mobile. To be test-launched next year.

Agni-5: Range 5000 Km (with MIRVs)

Under water missiles:

B-05: 700 Km
K-04: 3500 Km.
Future SLBM: 6000+Km with telescopic aerospike. Can be launched from ship/sub.
Next part on BMD.

Part-III
BMD missile system:
This program was started after 1995 when our western neighbors got M-9 and M-11s from our eastern ones, the political bosses came and asked Dr. Kalam what can you do for this problem, he then came and discussed it with scientists in DRDO and the BMD program was born. He then talked about the windows where BMD can be used, i.e. boost phase, midcourse, terminal.
Then he went onto describe the Indian BMD program.
Phase-I: AAD and PAD. For IRBM class of missiles
Phase-II: AD1 & AD2 for ICBM class of missiles.
While AAD uses RF seeker, for AD 1&2, IIR seeker will be required, for which an international collaboration is underway. The phased array radar used for AAD has a track range of 500Km and can track about 200 different targets with an RCS of 0.1 m^2. The current AAD and PAD combination can give in theory >99% probability of hit. AAD can also act as anti-cruise missile defense, with inputs from AEW/AWACS, aerostat radars, SAR satellites.
The video of AAD tests (yes both) was awesome. The electronic target attack and full range test showed that the AAD can act as a SAM for ~80 Km and a SSM(prahaar) for ~130 Km. The second test tracking showed both from the target as well as AAD visual confirmation of the other missile. The radar track of it showed the missiles hitting and spread of the debris. It was simply superb, the video of the tests, the high G maneuvers of the missile and the visualization of the target, just amazing.

More to come

Part-IV
Hypersonic vehicle:
This type of vehicle can use hydrocarbon fuel or hydrogen fuel. In the current scramjet configuration first Agni booster will be used to get the vehicle to ~Mach-6 after which the scramjet would kick off. The model tests at hypersonic velocity, shock tests etc are over. IIRC the engine has been tested too (It appeared in news IIRC).

Anti-satellite system:
After the recent events, it was decided to look at our own options to develop an anti-satellite system. AD radar can be used to track satellite and its C4I systems can also be used in this respect as well. Agni-1 first stage coupled with AAD vehicle can target satellites in 700 Km orbit.

Loitering autonomous missile: It would be a subsonic cruise missile with multiple sensors and multi-mode warheads so can be used in more than one kind of mission. It would have fused sensors to reduce weight, with no/very few moving parts in sensors.

Boost phase intercept: Fighter aircraft with integrated data on launch from satellites and hypersonic/supersonic missile.

Multiple kill vehicles for BMD: Small multiple kinetic energy kill vehicles will be used in this case which can do autonomous kill with/without guidance from command centre.

He also spoke on sensors and how their development is helping other fields, for eg. RLG has been developed for LCA. He also talked about 2 m diameter composite rocket motor. He said that we were further improving our missile structures. He said that we were moving from riveted to welded joints as well as prefabricated ones. This would lead to weight saving as well as endurance.

Clarifications on Cruise missile:-
In the later part he went on a lot technical and futuristic, which I couldnt grasp. Talking about conformal sensors, multiple fused sensors. He said that we have already reached mems based sensors in our missiles and are using system on chip (SOC) but will go further(I cannot recall that part as it was lot more technical).
But I found one major theme in his presentation was integration of systems, he was saying this when he was talking about LRSAM, AAD etc. as well as future technologies. I think a lot of these systems now use data from more than one type of radars, that these radars are redundant and can be used by more than one systems. For example, the radar which will be used by IAF for MRSAM can/is used by AAD as a supporting radar.
One good news is that they have successfully developed gelled IRFNA and UMH2 which reduces the risk in handling them and improves storage life.

Clarification Range of PDV And AAD:- It&#8217;s the height he mentioned. 40 and 15 kms IIRC.

its indeed a treasure trove....

 

[Kinetic]

Is this news credible?
Its diameter is 1.1 metres? Seriously?
I love to have a missile of that range, but will keep my fingers crossed, till the govt announces officially...

One of the most reliable source. I think Ananth Krishnan M of Tarmak007 reports for the express/IBN.

And the Agni-6 is nothing new. I revealed it first from a DRDO newsletter.

But the new info is land version and SLBM will be different.

I think that 40 m length may be a mistake.

 

[ALOK31]

good job DRDO

 

[tvsram1992]

40m is too much for it to fit in a submarine . Now China will be happy because we are making a Europe killer Oh not seriously . Parallely we should MIRVise A2 and A4 and make submarine variant .

 

[Dharmachakra]

It can be speculated as fourteen Meters instead of reported forty(hearing aid mistake) and 2.1m instead of (1.1m again hearing aid mistake)

Those specs of 14m length and 2.1m dia are more convincing with 55t mass and 2500kg throw weight.
Assuming that MIRV will be perfected on A-V before the A-VI was test flighted, A-VI altitude can be of the order of 900+km considering that it has to throw the warheads to a much longer distance than A-V with a nominal increase in weight.

But again, what is not convincing is the 2.1 m dia, since the current range utlizes 2m dia motors it just dont make sense to go for 2.1 m ones instead of 2.25 or 2.3m which can pack more propellant and mass for reduce length.

Either ways, if the 14mX 2.1m at 55t with throw weight of 2.5t holds ground, then it still is comparable to Trident-II. Which means its range is in excess of the reported 10000km for a reduced payload or less warheads.

 

[indushek]

Make no mistake i am damn happy but, how are we going to sell this to International community?? i mean after all we are descendants of Chanakya and followers too

 

[Dash]

Wont happen, that mean we could strike USA now then.

You need a 15,000 range for that , wont worry Uncle sam. so its good news.
butu we need that 6000 SLBM first and then this.

 

[qwerrty]

seeing how huge their 5000 km missile. this one will be 25 m diameter and 400 m in length..