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@Gessler what do you think about satellite based mkv for anti sat role ? A swarm attacking the enemy sat while mother sat guide them .

Could help in case of war ,where satellite is pre programmed about which satellite to target and if there are decoy too then we still have few kV for original sat

The full spectrum of anti-satellite capabilities are likely to be developed. That includes direct-ascent (already tested) & co-orbital weapons. All in due time.
 

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Now scheduled for October 27-28

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Personally I don't like the design ,too heavy a design , a new ICBM is required with composite motors and what's the obsession with pointy missile (this isn't the dictator movie ) .

Minimalist design....since its just single warhead. It is similar with number of minuteman series.

Ogive fairing is just one more thing that can go wrong....so I guess they chose not to have it till its proper MIRV.
 

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Minimalist design....since its just single warhead. It is similar with number of minuteman series.

Ogive fairing is just one more thing that can go wrong....so I guess they chose not to have it till its proper MIRV.
Mirv is almost there , remember agni 1 anti airfield warhead .

Well there are atleast two more ICBM in development (name not specified , except few calling nsurya and agni 6 ) ,but they have heavy throwaway weight and much more compact deriving from k4 and a1p
 

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Mirv is almost there , remember agni 1 anti airfield warhead .

Well there are atleast two more ICBM in development (name not specified , except few calling nsurya and agni 6 ) ,but they have heavy throwaway weight and much more compact deriving from k4 and a1p

This was a user trial so hence the regular deployed design.

We have all seen the slide presentation with the MIRV concept by now I am sure.....fairing and all.

Compact stubby ICBM ecosystem will definitely be priority given that is where the focus must lie (to assure maximum return on deterrence from investment i.e underwater SLBM driven)....rather than going for larger bulkier bigger + heavy missiles (given setting of our priorities).

I would say Agni V is volumetrically the high water mark needed as is.....it can reach 10k km range or more with relevant variants....doing volume calc of even solid fuel energy imparted....vis a vis its contemporaries.

Agni III (which later led to Agni V) when I first saw it I already knew this is volumetrically more than enough to work with to evolve all the variants needed. It was marked change from the pencil missile agnis before it.
 

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This was a user trial so hence the regular deployed design.

We have all seen the slide presentation with the MIRV concept by now I am sure.....fairing and all.

Compact stubby ICBM ecosystem will definitely be priority given that is where the focus must lie (to assure maximum return on deterrence from investment i.e underwater SLBM driven)....rather than going for larger bulkier bigger + heavy missiles (given setting of our priorities).

I would say Agni V is volumetrically the high water mark needed as is.....it can reach 10k km range or more with relevant variants....doing volume calc of even solid fuel energy imparted....vis a vis its contemporaries.

Agni III (which later led to Agni V) when I first saw it I already knew this is volumetrically more than enough to work with to evolve all the variants needed. It was marked change from the pencil missile agnis before it.
I really like k 4 and agni 1p the best
 

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The first user trial of Agni-5, India's first intercontinental ballistic missile, has been successful. It comes amidst the Ladakh standoff; the missile has a range of over 5000 km, which means it can cover the whole of China. On 'The Gist', StratNews Global Editor-in-Chief Nitin A. Gokhale is in conversation with Dr Avinash Chander, former director general of DRDO and one of the key architects of India's Agni missile programme.

 

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The first user trial of Agni-5, India's first intercontinental ballistic missile, has been successful. It comes amidst the Ladakh standoff; the missile has a range of over 5000 km, which means it can cover the whole of China. On 'The Gist', StratNews Global Editor-in-Chief Nitin A. Gokhale is in conversation with Dr Avinash Chander, former director general of DRDO and one of the key architects of India's Agni missile programme.

Agni 1 p can hit moving target , aircraft carrier 🤩
 

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Agni 1 p can hit moving target , aircraft carrier 🤩

That much was already deduced by keen watchers (including yours truly, on this very forum), and I believe Dr. Chander is doing the same, keep in mind he no longer serves in DRDO and it was a while back when he was Chairman, probably before A-1P program started. Former personnel are not necessarily appraised of current developments due to security issues.
 

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