From Shiv Aroor's YouTube video [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UO9GGurO6rA&feature=player_embedded"]http://youtu.be/UO9GGurO6rA[/url]
its clear that this was a Agni-2 Prime whose weight was way heavier than the older 1m diameter Agni-II missile whose all up weight was 17 tonne.
The booster of this craft is much wider and by my estimate weighing about 17 tonne (compared to 10 tonne of Agni-II), indicating an all up weight of about 23 tonne.
Fragmented news report mentioning 17 tonne weight is ostensibly for booster instead of all up weight.
From Apogee data of 880 km that has appeared it is clear that the missile was launched in slightly depressed trajectory to make for 20 minute flight ( actual flight range > 4,000 km) . One can also clearly see from contrails that the booster had flex nozzle.
BTW for the said 800 kg warhead, its maximum range is ~4,800 Km.
There is a video on the web titled [url="http://youtu.be/AVF2kTl10fg"]Agni-IV Test Launch Trajectory Tracking Video [/url]that I consider is a engineering test and simulation tool, and not data from tracking stations. Curiously teh simulation ends at ~ 60 km altitude (that is where RV will pull fly flat into glide) <img src='http://www.india-forum.com/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rolleyes.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
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its clear that this was a Agni-2 Prime whose weight was way heavier than the older 1m diameter Agni-II missile whose all up weight was 17 tonne.
The booster of this craft is much wider and by my estimate weighing about 17 tonne (compared to 10 tonne of Agni-II), indicating an all up weight of about 23 tonne.
Fragmented news report mentioning 17 tonne weight is ostensibly for booster instead of all up weight.
From Apogee data of 880 km that has appeared it is clear that the missile was launched in slightly depressed trajectory to make for 20 minute flight ( actual flight range > 4,000 km) . One can also clearly see from contrails that the booster had flex nozzle.
BTW for the said 800 kg warhead, its maximum range is ~4,800 Km.
There is a video on the web titled [url="http://youtu.be/AVF2kTl10fg"]Agni-IV Test Launch Trajectory Tracking Video [/url]that I consider is a engineering test and simulation tool, and not data from tracking stations. Curiously teh simulation ends at ~ 60 km altitude (that is where RV will pull fly flat into glide) <img src='http://www.india-forum.com/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rolleyes.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
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