After successful test launch of Agni-V, India eyes Agni-VI, capable of hitting multiple targets
New Delhi: After the successful test-launch of the indigenously created intercontinental surface-to-surface atomic proficient ballistic missile 'Agni-5' from the Wheeler Island off Odisha drift on Monday, the researchers at the DRDO have started work for a more deadly Agni-VI missile.
As per reports, the impending propelled Agni-VI rocket will be furnished with "moving warheads or canny reentry vehicles" to annihilation foe resistance frameworks or MIRVs (various autonomously targetable reentry vehicles).
A MIRV payload actually implies that a solitary Agni-VI will be equipped for conveying a few atomic warheads, each modified to hit diverse targets.
In the middle of, the Strategic Forces Command (SFC) is likewise anticipated that would conducts client trials of the 4,000-km Agni-IV rocket, which has been planned in view of China, in the main week of January.
Aside from the shorter-run "Prithvi" and "Dhanush" missile, the SFC has so far drafted the Agni-I (700km), Agni-II (2,000km) and Agni-III (3,000km) missile till now.
India's most impressive missile Agni-5, with a scope of more than 5,000-km, is currently prepared for client trials by the military after it experienced its fourth and last test-terminating from the incorporated test run off the Odisha drift yesterday.
The intercontinental ballistic rocket (ICBM) Agni-V, named a "distinct advantage" in key prevention since it brings the entire of China and a great deal more inside its strike envelope, was let go from its canister on a launcher truck soon after 11 am.
Controlled by three-organize rocket engines, the 50-ton rocket attacked space to a stature of 500 km before taking after its foreordained flight-way to the "sprinkle point" in southern Indian Ocean 20 minutes after the fact.
President Pranab Mukherjee and PM Modi had saluted the DRDO group after the rocket's fruitful test-dispatch.
Among the missile of Agni arrangement, the most recent Agni-V is the most exceptional having some new innovations consolidated with it as far as route and direction, warhead and motor, the sources said.
Named after one of the five components of nature, Agni arrangement are long range, surface-to-surface atomic skilled ballistic missile. The primary rocket of the arrangement, Agni-I was produced under the Integrated Guided Missile Development Program and tried in 1989.