Indian Missile News And Discussion

[Bharat_2009]

[quote name='ramana' date='29 September 2010 - 01:21 AM' timestamp='1285702999' post='108537']

The one tonne payload requirement creeps in during the IGMP recast in 1984. Ref. Wings of Fire. Arunachalam and Kalam go to Delhi to meet the RM to present their plan of sequential development of the candidate vehicles. He listens and suggest parallel development and upgrades the Agni requirement from a small experiment to a one tonne payload.



After the POII tests press reports suggest the weight of the T/N was ~500kg ie half the goal.



After the doubts about the T/N in POK II, we are again at the large weight payload. And for AIII its 1.5 tonne.



So what is this one?

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sorry, corrected the Payload with MK-4 and MK-6 RVs



8100 km @ 1500 kg. (3 x 500 to 550 kg FBF Warheads) Yield - 450 kilotons or (8 x 180 kg FBF warheads) Yield - 136 kilotons



RV MK-5 (340 kg TN warhead with 200 kilotons yield-Field test verification needed)



RV MK-5 could also be 340 kg FBF with 50 kilotons Yield.