Indian Missile News And Discussion

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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?