Agni - 3
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- Height 16 meter.
- Weight 48,000 Kgms.
- Can carry warheads weighing up to 1500 Kgms.
- In II world war, Germany used missiles for the first time to attack France and England.
- China has missiles with a range of 11000 kms and Agni - 3 is with a range of 3000 kms.
- Now India will develop Agni - 5, with a range of 5000 Kms. and will be really inter-continental missile.
- It is a ballistic missile.
- The highest speed it achieved during the experiment was 4 kms / second.
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It was an auspicious day of Akshay Tritiya as per Indian calendar when India tested its Agni - 3 missile, surface-to-surface longest-range and nuclear capable, successfully and India registered its name proudly in the list of nations that have intermediate-range ballistic missiles (IRBM).With its 3000 km range, it is a mobile system capable of being launched from anywhere in India. Its range includes all parts of South Asia including all major cities of China.
Agni - 3 is capable of carrying warheads weighing up to 1.5 tonnes.
The all solid fuel missile Agni - 3 was tested at 9:56 AM from the Inner Wheeler Island at Dhamra, a launch site in Bhadrak district, about 200 km from Bhubaneshwar, capital of Orissa.
The missiles reached its target in 800 seconds, reaching a pick height of 350 Kms, with a velocity of more than 4 Kms / second. The missile re-enters the atmosphere at very high velocity and then faces a deceleration of more than 35 times the force of gravity, raising its temperature above 2500 degrees Celsius. The payload is protected by a carbon-carbon all composite heat shield.
Agni - 3, one of the Agni series missiles, is a two stage solid propellant missile with a length 17 meters, diameter of 2 meters and launch weight of 50 tonnes.
While Agni - 1 is a 750-800 km short-range missile, Agni - 2 has a range of more than 1500 Km. Both have already been inducted into the armed forces.
At least 200 scientists witnessed Wednesday's test. They included V.K. Saraswat, chief controller DRDO and Avinash Chandra, director of the Agni-III program.
The success of Agni - 3 paves the way for India to build its truly intercontinental range missiles Agni - 4 with a range of 5000 Km in the near future.
Let's hope, we need not use it, and if used, should be used in defense and not to attack.
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