Agni iv

Agni iv

                       

  India test-fired its nuclear-capable strategic missile Agni-IV with a strike range of about 4000 km from a test range off Odisha coast

It was test launched with the help of a mobile launcher from launch complex-4 of ITR at Wheeler Island, about 100 km from here, at about 1145 hours, defense sources said.

A high performance on-board computer with distributed avionics architecture and high speed reliable communication bus and a full Digital Control System used to control and guide the missile to the target.

"It is equipped with modern and compact avionics to provide high level of reliability,” a DRDO official said.

"The state-of-the-art Ring Laser Gyros based high accuracy INS and Micro Navigation System (MINGS) complementing each other in redundant mode have been incorporated into the missile system in guidance mode," the sources said.

The sophisticated missile is lighter in weight and has two stages of solid propulsion. The payload, with a re-entry heat shield can withstand temperature of more than 3000 degree Celsius, a defense scientist said.

The missile is undergoing developmental trials by country's premier DRDO.

The last trial of the missile, carried out on November 15, 2011 from the same base was successful.

Type Medium-range ballistic missile (Agni-I)
Intermediate-range ballistic missile (Agni-II, Agni-III, Agni-IV)
Intercontinental ballistic missile (Agni-V, Agni VI)  India .

Warhead Strategic nuclear (15 KT to 250 KT), conventional HE-unitary, penetration, sub-munitions, incendiary, or fuel air explosives

Engine Single stage (Agni-I)
Two-and-half-stage (Agni-II)
Two stage (Agni-III) solid propellant engine
Operational
range 700-1,200 km (Agni-I)
2,000-3,500 km (Agni-II)
3,500-5,000 km (Agni-III)
Over 5,500 km (Agni-V)
8,000-10,000 km (Agni VI) Flight altitude 300 km (Agni-I)
230 km (Agni-II),
350 km (Agni-III)  Speed 2.5 km/s (Agni-I)
3.5 km/s (Agni-II) Guidance
system Ring laser gyro-INS ( inertial navigation system), optionally augmented by GPS terminal guidance  with possible radar scene correlation Launch
platform 8 x 8 Tatra TELAR