Indian Missile News And Discussion

[Arun_S]

[quote name='Chandragupta' date='08 February 2010 - 11:44 PM' timestamp='1265652388' post='104002']

Arun,

since its an MIRV and most likely with use an unreliable TN which is of ?KT,I am considering that it will have 5-8 MIRV`s onboard.And I will take the upper range for the same number of MIRV`s.

Can you conclude the specs that goes into ATV?

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Given TN fizzle at POK-II and Man Mohan Singh's Civil Nuclear Agreement w/IAEA, USA and NSG, Indian missiles will not have credible TN weapon payload. The MIRV configuration will thus have to largely rely on smaller FBF weapons of 50 to 150 kt yield, sprinkled with presumably debugged TN warhead (that fizzled in POK-II). The missile range and the inventory of weapon grade Pu required will thus constrain Indian nuclear deterrence.



Arihant ATV with Agni MIRV will have to live with a mixed weapons payload configuration, resulting in short legs and small boom.



Consider reviewing following IDR articles that are still hosted on India Research Foundation.



[url="http://www.indiaresearch.org/articles.html"]IRF Articles[/url]



[url="http://www.indiaresearch.org/articles.html"]http://www.indiarese...g/articles.html[/url]



In particular:

1. [url="http://www.indiaresearch.org/WayToACredibleDeterrent.pdf"]WAY TO A CREDIBLE DETERRENT, © Arun Vishwakarma[/url]
2. [url="http://www.indiaresearch.org/Shourya_Missile.pdf"]Shourya/Sagarika Missile © Arun Vishwakarma[/url]

On the first article ([url="http://www.indiaresearch.org/WayToACredibleDeterrent.pdf"]WAY TO A CREDIBLE DETERRENT[/url]), pls see the MIRV configuration "L" in [url="http://www.indiaresearch.org/WayToACredibleDeterrent.pdf"]Figure 4: RV and nuclear warheads options on various Indian missiles[/url]