Indian Missile News And Discussion

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[quote name='Arun_S' date='04 February 2010 - 07:21 AM' timestamp='1265247818' post='103890']

When did Santhanam say that? <img src='http://www.india-forum.com/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/unsure.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':unsure:' />







I have stated my position in articles that I wrote on India Defense Review magazine, as well as on my web pages that I earlier hosted on Bharat-Rakshak (I have quit BR since Oct last, and removed my pages from BR ), as well as my posts on BR discussion forum before I withdrew from BR.



Any design by BARC of 350 kg FBF warhead of yield 150 kilotons is not credible (one cant scale that much up from the S1 FBF primary that worked like a charm in Pok-II) ( lacking demonstrated test and as well as lack of instruments, labs and demonstrated people and organizational capability).



Such claimed capability will be as empty as Chidambram's boast of 45 kT yield off Pok-II TN- test shot, which was in reality a grand fusion fizzle, and his empty boast of BARC's ability to scale us PoK-II TN fizzle to 200Kt TN.







Agni's range versus payload graph I have earlier published in my articles that I wrote on India Defense Review as well as my web pages that I earlier hosted on Bharat-Rakshak. OTOH imagining light weight- high yield FBF weapons in Indian hands is questionable.



As an aside I do not like your idea of naming potential challengers, I suggest to desist from that temptation; it does not serve Indian interest.





Of course addition of a composite case 3rd stage will significantly increase the range versus payload capabelity compared to the 2 stage Agni-III.



If you have RockSIM you can figure out yourself what the range could be for 1000 kg payload.

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Thanks for your inputs on warheads.



your articles on strategic missiles were awesome !! Cleared up lot of things !!





According to your Shourya pdf article,



550 kg of FBF warhead can yield 150 kilotons !!



and one more clarification



Agni III (3B) variant with 3 or 4 stages would be called as Agni IV, right ??





I do have some friends working for DRDO. They gave some information about Nirbhay long range cruise missile.



Russians have been employed to fix the Turbofan engine problems. Launcher is also getting ready in Pune. We are looking at 4 Nirbhay missiles on each launcher !!



Dr. Santhanam was on Headlines today for an interview. The news anchor was blindly saying that every test carried out during Pokhran II failed. Dr Santhanam stopped him and said, it was just TN warhead which needed more testing. He said other tests worked like a song !!



May be I assumed too much without getting in to the details !!