India Missiles and Guided Munitions

[Gessler]

Something big was tested off the east coast today...

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The issued NOTAM was for a distance of just over 3500 kms, so most probably an Agni-derived boost stage. No statement yet on what the upper stage was.

Here we go - it was a MIRVed Agni!

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2053069194749706652

"Advanced Agni missile with MIRV (Multiple Independently Targeted Re-Entry Vehicle) system was successfully tested from Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Island, Odisha on 08th May 2026. The missile was flight tested with Multiple payloads, targeted to different targets spatially distributed over a large geographical area in Indian Ocean Region."

Edited & color-corrected version of the pic found on another forum:

This is the first (known) night-launch of the MIRVed Agni. Note that they do not specifically refer to it as Agni-V anymore. I speculated previously that the MIRVed platform represents the notional 'Agni-V Mk.2'.

Seems the "Advanced Agni" is pretty much that. Also worth noting is that it seems this test was conducted on a lofted trajectory (hence the ~3500 km NOTAM instead of the platform's original +5000 km reach), though I have to wonder if that's not a result of the increase in payload.

 

[Afif]

Here we go - it was a MIRVed Agni!

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2053069194749706652

"Advanced Agni missile with MIRV (Multiple Independently Targeted Re-Entry Vehicle) system was successfully tested from Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Island, Odisha on 08th May 2026. The missile was flight tested with Multiple payloads, targeted to different targets spatially distributed over a large geographical area in Indian Ocean Region."

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Edited & color-corrected version of the pic found on another forum:

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This is the first (known) night-launch of the MIRVed Agni. Note that they do not specifically refer to it as Agni-V anymore. I speculated previously that the MIRVed platform represents the notional 'Agni-V Mk.2'.

Seems the "Advanced Agni" is pretty much that. Also worth noting is that it seems this test was conducted on a lofted trajectory (hence the ~3500 km NOTAM instead of the platform's original +5000 km reach), though I have to wonder if that's not a result of the increase in payload.

I wonder how much Chinese HQ19 Exo-atmospheric and HQ29 mid-course interceptors affect India's current deterrence posture.