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2006-07-09 India-Pakistan

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Posted by john 2006-07-09 07:12|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Rahul Bedi, India correspondent of Jane's Defence Weekly, told Reuters:

"We can now reach large parts of northern China making our deterrence capacity stronger"

Posted by john 2006-07-09 07:30|| 2006-07-09 07:30|| Front Page Top

#2 Not one of Peking's better weeks.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-07-09 07:55|| 2006-07-09 07:55|| Front Page Top

#3 Carbon-carbon re-entry vehicle.
The big time.

Posted by 6 2006-07-09 08:00|| 2006-07-09 08:00|| Front Page Top

#4 The big time.

Backed by a non-metallic carbon composite airframe.

The RV carries up to 200 kg of fuel for the high altitude motors that allows it to maneuver during reentry, defeating any terminal ABM system the Chinese may develop.

Posted by john 2006-07-09 09:14|| 2006-07-09 09:14|| Front Page Top

#5 Length: 17 m
Diameter: 1.8 m
Launch Weight: 39-48 tonnes
Payload: 600- 1500Kg (2490 Kg conventional)
Guidence: INS , optionally augmented by GPS/GLONASS/IRSS, possibly with radar scene correlation.
Range: 5500Km (1500 Kg)
Propellant Solid HTPB/AP/Al
Case Material: Kevlar Epoxy Composites
RV: carbon-carbon composite
450 kg warhead Yield: 200Kt

Dang. That's as good as anything we've got. sounds like they got the materials engineering down cold. Or close to it.
Like to see the accuracy figs, tho.

Posted by N guard 2006-07-09 09:16|| 2006-07-09 09:16|| Front Page Top

#6 Ha ha! Take that Norks!

Posted by DarthVader 2006-07-09 09:25|| 2006-07-09 09:25|| Front Page Top

#7 There are reports of a problem during flight - missile going off radar during flight .. no press conference so far...

Posted by john 2006-07-09 09:29|| 2006-07-09 09:29|| Front Page Top

#8 Reports that
both range and trajectory requirements were not met.

Perhaps a problem with the new second stage motor..

Posted by john 2006-07-09 09:44|| 2006-07-09 09:44|| Front Page Top

#9 Second stage ignition failure

Posted by john 2006-07-09 10:00|| 2006-07-09 10:00|| Front Page Top

#10 sell some to Taiwan?

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-07-09 10:35|| 2006-07-09 10:35|| Front Page Top

#11 The Indian defence analyst Bharat Karnad has been advocating just that.

Another suggestion involves the diesel-electric submarines that Taiwan wants, but the US no longer builds, that Germany and France are afraid to sell. Since India will have a production line for French subs, and will setup another line for either Russian or German subs, a few could be made for Taiwan, customized with US and Taiwanese help.

Posted by john 2006-07-09 10:46|| 2006-07-09 10:46|| Front Page Top

#12 DHAMRA (ORISSA): India on Sunday test fired its most advanced intermediate range ballistic missile Agni-III but it developed a snag and fell into the sea off the coast of Orissa without hitting the target, defence sources said.

The launch of the nuclear-capable missile, designed to hit targets at a distance of 3,500 km, from the Integrated Test Range at Wheeler Island was "successful" but its second stage did not separate and it fell into the sea, the sources said.

They said the missile went up vertically to a height of about 12 km before the snag developed. The sources attributed the problem to a "design failure".

Officially, there was no confirmation of any problem, with a spokesman confining himself to a terse statement that "the missile took off successfully" at 11.03 hours IST. He said "the flight performance" was being analysed by the mission team.

Sources in the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), which developed the missile and launched it, said complete details of the test-firing would be known in "a day or two".

Posted by john 2006-07-09 11:27|| 2006-07-09 11:27|| Front Page Top

#13 Agni is the Hindu god of Fire.

Posted by Spomoper Ominesh1827 2006-07-09 12:31|| 2006-07-09 12:31|| Front Page Top

#14 DRDO to conduct more test trials of Agni-III missile

Press Trust of India
New Delhi, July 9, 2006

Undaunted by the partial failure of test-firing of the country's most powerful and longer reach 3,500 km range Agni-III missile, Defence Research and Development Organisation scientists today said more trials of the IRBM missile would be conducted in months ahead to make it fool-proof.

"It was our first experiment with such a long range missile and in the next few days, we will analyse faults in order to rectify them," the scientists told.

They said the entire data of the testing of the missile from its launch to a snag developing in the second stage was being analysed and "we are hopeful of rectifying it".

When the missile veered off course, the scientist had been closely monitoring the trajectory of the missile, they said.

Prior to the launch of the missile, DRDO scientists had carried out cold sea bed trials of critical components and subsistence of missile and this would enable pinpointing of the snag.

Posted by john 2006-07-09 14:07|| 2006-07-09 14:07|| Front Page Top

#15 Berhampore (WB), July 10 (PTI): The snag developed in the Agni-III that caused the missile to miss the target would be thoroughly examined, Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee, said on Sunday night.

The reason behind the snag would be explored and the faults corrected, Mukherjee told reporters here.

Posted by john 2006-07-09 15:42|| 2006-07-09 15:42|| Front Page Top

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