Indian Missile News And Discussion

[ramana]

Saik, The connundrum of the Agni series is that the rentry vehicle is a boost glide vehicle and not plain old ballistic re-entry vehicle. What this means is the RV re-enters at a significant distance from the target and travels to the destination taking evasive moves. So to use a ballistic trajectory program to calculate the RV trajectory causes gaps in understanding the flight.



All I would take away from current data released is the appogee was 230km and re-entry velocity was 3.5km/sec and the total time of flight was 660sec. Someone can figure out what was the time to re-entry ie to fly to 150 km. And the difference is the re-entry boost glide path time.