Indian Missiles News & Discussions - 30 June 2022

[drnayar]

https://x.com/i/status/2052807040045601166
@padaimagan
Earlier today - TARA glide weapon tested off Odisha.
Then something launched. Visible from Bengal. Visible from Bangladesh.
I said: "What are they cooking?"

Now the DRDO chief said "no comments" when asked if India is ready.

That's not a denial.
In strategic communication, "no comments" from DRDO chief = confirmation.

Agni-6. 12,000 KM range.
Every major Chinese city. Every Pakistani asset.
Every adversary. Simultaneously. With MIRV.

FAS said India developed MIRV "faster than anticipated."
China embedded engineers with PAF to collect data on our kill chain.
GoI gave the GO AHEAD.

They wanted to know what India has.
China's surveillance ships are welcome - front row seats for the next launch.

Today, India showed them.
Not with a press conference.
With a launch.

The sky over Odisha doesn't lie.
[img]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HH0HNqWWwAk ... name=small[/img

10 is enough to bring China to keel., one enough for porkis to kneel !

[S_Madhukar]

Looking closer and closer to K-6

[uddu]

India conducts successful flight-trial of Advanced Agni missile with Multiple Independently Targeted Re-Entry Vehicle system

Missile look similar to the MIRV Agni-V from 2024
https://x.com/Duorope/status/1767210383880929532

[uddu]

https://x.com/i/status/2053083942786662507
@Kunal_Biswas707
On 8 May 2026, India test-fired a prototype of Agni-5 Mk2 a precursor to the Agni-6, this model is about weight reduction and enhanced MIRVs, has striking range of 8,000 kilometers with maximum 3-8 MIRVs where AGNI-6 will have a range of 12000 kilometers with 10 MIRVs.

So not yet Agni-6. This is the Agni-V MK2 variant.

[bala]

The Agni test and other missiles / Lt Gen PR Shankar
Some insights provided by Shankar on missiles

[bala]

https://x.com/user/status/2053143974131683585

DRDL Hyderabad has conducted second successful extensive long-duration test of Actively Cooled Full Scale Scramjet Combustor, achieving a run time of over 1200 seconds at its state-of-the-art Scramjet Connect Pipe Test (SCPT) Facility on May 09, 2026. This is major advancement towards Hypersonic Missile Programme

[williams]

https://x.com/user/status/2053143974131683585

DRDL Hyderabad has conducted second successful extensive long-duration test of Actively Cooled Full Scale Scramjet Combustor, achieving a run time of over 1200 seconds at its state-of-the-art Scramjet Connect Pipe Test (SCPT) Facility on May 09, 2026. This is major advancement towards Hypersonic Missile Programme

20 minutes! Going to keep the uncles and aunties at bay once operationalized.

[vera_k]

So not yet Agni-6. This is the Agni-V MK2 variant.

Probably Agni-6. Unclear why they otherwise have a need to announce this, given the following statement. One announces the first of something, not the second. But also true that Agni-6 will be a technology demonstrator as the K-6 SLBM will be the deployed version.

India conducts successful flight-trial of Advanced Agni missile with Multiple Independently Targeted Re-Entry Vehicle system

With this successful trial, India once again demonstrated the capability to target multiple strategic targets using a single missile system.

[Manish_Sharma]

https://x.com/Malay4Product/status/2053 ... 08685?s=20

This is one of the biggest engineering wins India has had in years, and it deserves so much appreciation!

What got tested today isn't just any missile. It's a missile that can carry many nuclear warheads at once, with each warhead going to a different target hundreds of kilometres apart. On top of that, the warhead doesn't fall in a normal arc that enemy defence systems can predict.

It glides at over five times the speed of sound and changes direction mid-flight, which makes it almost impossible to shoot down with anything any country has today.

Putting all three things into one missile, MIRV, hypersonic glide, and 5,000 plus km range, is incredibly hard. The only countries in the world that have done this are the US, Russia, China, and now India. That's it.

The story behind it is the part that should make every Indian proud.

This whole journey started in 1983 under Dr APJ Abdul Kalam at DRDO. Five missiles to be built, all indigenous, with names you'll recognise. Prithvi, Agni, Trishul, Nag, Akash.

The West had blocked us from buying any of this technology. We had to figure out everything ourselves. The materials. The on-board computers. The fuel. The guidance. The warhead miniaturisation. Every part of this is a separate hard problem, and DRDO labs along with ISRO, BARC and dozens of partners cracked them one by one over four decades.

Forty-three years from a small missile programme to a missile that puts India in the same club as the US, Russia and China. Done under sanctions, on a fraction of their budgets, with no foreign help. There aren't many engineering stories in the world that look like this.

The bigger point is what this means for India's safety.

With this missile, no enemy can wipe out India's nuclear weapons in a surprise attack, because the launchers can move anywhere, each missile carries many warheads, and the warheads can't be shot down.

Hats off to DRDO, the Strategic Forces Command, and every engineer who has spent decades quietly building this capability for India.

And a quiet thank you to Dr Kalam, whose dream in 1983 has finally taken this shape.

[Prem Kumar]

Probably Agni-6. Unclear why they otherwise have a need to announce this, given the following statement. One announces the first of something, not the second. But also true that Agni-6 will be a technology demonstrator as the K-6 SLBM will be the deployed version.

With this successful trial, India once again demonstrated the capability to target multiple strategic targets using a single missile system.

It might indicate a deployment-signal. The 1st test would have been a tech demonstrator. This, a full blown, deployment ready test with accuracy measurements.

In the 2024 PIB release, this phrase was missing: spatially distributed over a large geographical area in the Indian Ocean Region

So, the 2024 test might have been to prove MIRV but within a tight delivery envelope. The latest test would have had the petals drop 100s of KMs apart. Entirely possible that MaRV warheads with maneuvers might have also been tested

[VinodTK]

With Agni Prime (3 war heads) and Agani 5 (6 to 8 warhead) being declared as MIRV capable
assuming MOD decides to build and deploy:

Agni Prime: 10 launch vehicles needing 30 war heads (3 x 10)
Agni 5: 10 launch vehicles needing 60 to 80 war heads (8 x 10)

No clear/official delaration on the naval deployment

India needs to ramp up its miniturized war head count rapidly to meet the deployable needs.

[Prem Kumar]

That's where the new PFBR comes in. Per Swarajya, the PFBR, which doesn't come under the IAEA purview, can produce enough plutonium for ~40 weapons per year, marking a significant up-shift in capability

[drnayar]

That's where the new PFBR comes in. Per Swarajya, the PFBR, which doesn't come under the IAEA purview, can produce enough plutonium for ~40 weapons per year, marking a significant up-shift in capability

That's just one PFBR

[williams]

I think the higher priority is to fast track Space Based Surveillance (SBS) Phase-III project and improve our ISR capability. We can no more think only about immediate neighborhood. If the range of these missiles are intercontinental then we need the space based capability to monitor and track across the globe.

[sanjaykumar]

WHAT are those Indian engineers up to?

There has been a plethora of platforms tested. Including the spectacular 20 minute duration scramjet test.


The strategic options are dizzying. Practically the whole of Tibet can be insulated from resupply. These platforms based in Vietnam can strike Shanghai. These assets can be gifted to friendly regimes like Guyana and Mauritius.

overseas basing in client states like Qatar or Subic bay or Diego Garcia are as fraught as aircraft carriers. Gwader will never house a Chinese naval base. Technology has replaced physical basing assets, made it vulnerable and firmly a relic of the last century. Previously only nuclear weapons could provide such deterrence.


India need not waste resources on carriers. The US needs to retire those. One cannot lose 5000 people to a missile.

These technologies negate old war materiel and concepts. They may also enhance dialogue and a sense of fair play.

This is the ultimate asymmetric leverage. Will China risk the liaong if Philippines can strike it at 1000 km distance. Might as well call the South China Sea the northwest Philippines sea.

[S_Madhukar]

Not sure how authentic but this shows depressed trajectory of Agni

https://x.com/elmihiro/status/2053873254960611496

[S_Madhukar]

WHAT are those Indian engineers up to?

There has been a plethora of platforms tested. Including the spectacular 20 minute duration scramjet test.


The strategic options are dizzying. Practically the whole of Tibet can be insulated from resupply. These platforms based in Vietnam can strike Shanghai. These assets can be gifted to friendly regimes like Guyana and Mauritius.

overseas basing in client states like Qatar or Subic bay or Diego Garcia are as fraught as aircraft carriers. Gwader will never house a Chinese naval base. Technology has replaced physical basing assets, made it vulnerable and firmly a relic of the last century. Previously only nuclear weapons could provide such deterrence.


India need not waste resources on carriers. The US needs to retire those. One cannot lose 5000 people to a missile.

These technologies negate old war materiel and concepts. They may also enhance dialogue and a sense of fair play.

This is the ultimate asymmetric leverage. Will China risk the liaong if Philippines can strike it at 1000 km distance. Might as well call the South China Sea the northwest Philippines sea.

Do you reckon this is the end of US bases around middle and top tier powers ? Will this lead to space based assets like FOBS for conventional strikes ? Ofc $$ are not there currently for such Star Wars games

[sanjaykumar]

I predict that the bases will be vacated in the gulf states. Hosting them invites insecurity not security.


Did iranis ever state that American troops were using civilians as shields when they were evacuated off those bases and into 5* hotels? I don’t mean rhetorically.

The Arabs see that those bases themselves could not be protected, far from projecting power.

Yes indeed you are correct. Fractional orbital weapons and weaponisation of space are coming. So is the non-orbital basing treaty.


How about fixing the server error? I get it. There is a server error.

[pravula]

With Agni Prime (3 war heads) and Agani 5 (6 to 8 warhead) being declared as MIRV capable
assuming MOD decides to build and deploy:

Agni Prime: 10 launch vehicles needing 30 war heads (3 x 10)
Agni 5: 10 launch vehicles needing 60 to 80 war heads (8 x 10)

No clear/official delaration on the naval deployment

India needs to ramp up its miniturized war head count rapidly to meet the deployable needs.

Not all would be warheads imho. Decoys and ecm pods will take a chunk of the capacity out. Still nothing to sneeze at and we will have to ramp up.

[uddu]

IAF Eyes Air-to-Surface Adaptation of DRDO’s Naval NASM-SR Anti-Ship Missile for Attack Helicopter Strike Missions
https://defence.in/threads/iaf-eyes-air ... ons.17726/
May 12 2026

A welcome development by IAF, compared to the usual obsession with foreign weaponary.

[uddu]

https://x.com/i/status/2054077174773358627
@chakranewz
With the K-5 SLBM pop-up test, India’s nuclear deterrence just got stronger.

With a reported range of 5,000+ km, MIRV capability, and future deployment aboard S-5 nuclear submarines, the K-5 strengthens India’s ability to strike deep from underwater.

But how does it change the balance with China and Pakistan? And why are SLBMs the most critical leg of the nuclear triad?

Sandeep Unnithan, Editor, Chakra News breaks down the K-5, India’s underwater nuclear strategy, and what comes next.

Why India’s K-5 MIRV Missile Matters
India conducted a pop-up test of the K-5, a next-generation submarine-launched ballistic missile believed to have a range of over 5,000 km and MIRV capability.

But why does the K-5 matter for India’s nuclear deterrence? And how will it change the balance against China and Pakistan?
Sandeep Unnithan, Editor, Chakra News breaks down the K-5 missile, India’s S-5 nuclear submarines, the significance of SLBMs, and what could come next in India’s underwater nuclear programme.


The mijjile is pointy and scary.

[Nikhil_Naya]

My new coffee wallah told me that one more test is in the offing before the monsoon fury...and it will be a game changer - something old that didnt really see light of day but redesigned and with more indigenous content with a long range cruise capability. Also coming in multi launch avatar...fingers crossed.

[ashthor]

Nirbhay with 2000-2500 km range.

[sajaym]

Not sure whether I had read here, but thought there was a plan to develop a SAM with MIRV-like multiple independently targetable warheads?

[drnayar]

Not sure whether I had read here, but thought there was a plan to develop a SAM with MIRV-like multiple independently targetable warheads?

Interesting concept.. useful for high value targets !!

[SSridhar]

My new coffee wallah told me that one more test is in the offing before the monsoon fury...and it will be a game changer - something old that didnt really see light of day but redesigned and with more indigenous content with a long range cruise capability. Also coming in multi launch avatar...fingers crossed.

Thanks Nikhil. AoA.

[drnayar]

My new coffee wallah told me that one more test is in the offing before the monsoon fury...and it will be a game changer - something old that didnt really see light of day but redesigned and with more indigenous content with a long range cruise capability. Also coming in multi launch avatar...fingers crossed.

Long Range Land Attack Cruise Missile (LRLACM) ?

[mody]

My new coffee wallah told me that one more test is in the offing before the monsoon fury...and it will be a game changer - something old that didnt really see light of day but redesigned and with more indigenous content with a long range cruise capability. Also coming in multi launch avatar...fingers crossed.

My guess would be a new upgraded version of Shaurya missile.

[Ashokk]

https://x.com/detresfa_/status/2055261632830243286

India issues a notification for a likely missile test in the ?Bay of Bengal region, the range is nearly 1,000-kml

Date | 21-22 May 2026

[uddu]

Looks like a ballistic missile test.

[uddu]

My new coffee wallah told me that one more test is in the offing before the monsoon fury...and it will be a game changer - something old that didnt really see light of day but redesigned and with more indigenous content with a long range cruise capability. Also coming in multi launch avatar...fingers crossed.

My guess would be a new upgraded version of Shaurya missile.

Those bolded parts could mean Variants of Nirbhay or ITCM project missiles.
More indigenous content with Manik engine. Shaurya is already indigenous.
Long range cruise capability could mean the LR-LACM
Multi launch from platform could mean the same missile over Shaurya which is limited to sub and land.

Though the lastest NOTAM is for ballistic missile or testing LR-LACM to it's max range more or less in a straight path.

[ashthor]

Multi launch could be air/sea and land launch or sub launched.

[uddu]

Multi launch could be air/sea and land launch or sub launched.

True. The ITCM missiles are the one's capable of that. The other chances are for Brahmos - II.

[uddu]

Instead of placing orders for this in the 5000's in first order our Kadi Ninda system will do 117 or so nos. Indian leadership's mind is still not ready to run with the success. We have to compare with others and when no such system exist, we have to wait endlessly until someone else starts to bring in similar system to do compare and then make further interation to induct it. A capable minister will now be placing orders and also looking at option to integrate the same onto attack helicopters as well by creating specific type of launchers suited to launch this ULPGM)-V3 and many more than any other missiles being carried on attack helicopters like rocket pods. If MP, we must be seeing all that already done.
DRDO successfully tests advanced UAV-Final trials of ULPGM-V3


https://x.com/i/status/2056906984025420112
@Varun55484761
Defence Research and Development Organisation has successfully completed the final deliverable configuration development trials of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Launched Precision Guided Missile (ULPGM)-V3 in Air-to-Ground and Air-to-Air modes at DRDO test range near Kurnool






V3 or ER is said to have a range of 10km
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ULPGM

[ShauryaT]

Suryastra Rockets successfully demonstrate capability to hit targets at 300 Km during trials

India has successfully tested the indigenous Suryastra rocket system, demonstrating its ability to strike targets accurately at ranges of up to 300 km. The trials were conducted at the Integrated Test Range in Chandipur, Odisha, and met all mission objectives.

[uddu]

indigenous Suryastra rocket system, demonstrating its ability to strike targets accurately at ranges of up to 300 km. The trials were conducted at the Integrated Test Range in Chandipur, Odisha, and met all mission objectives.

Let's call things as they are. Israeli Elbit Systems PULS rocket under Screw in India scheme.

[stephen]

Suryastra Rockets successfully demonstrate capability to hit targets at 300 Km during trials

India has successfully tested the indigenous Suryastra rocket system, demonstrating its ability to strike targets accurately at ranges of up to 300 km. The trials were conducted at the Integrated Test Range in Chandipur, Odisha, and met all mission objectives.

All foreign items being rebranded as desi products should come under the nomenclature "Screw India" or Screw Atmanirbhar" systems.
Trying to take the janata for a ride by making it sound as if it has been locally developed and manufactured. We have the Pralay system with similar characteristics but decide to go and import this.

[VinodTK]

Hypersonic Missiles, Scramjets & MIRVs: India's Next Gen Weapons | The Sandeep Unnithan Show

Good amount of information from Dr. Mishra

India has tested hypersonic glide weapons, scramjet engines and MIRV-capable missiles: technologies considered the future of warfare. But how significant are these breakthroughs really? Can hypersonic missiles truly evade modern air defences? And why does Dr Sudhir Mishra call scramjets the “holy grail” of missile technology?

[ShauryaT]

Suryastra Rockets successfully demonstrate capability to hit targets at 300 Km during trials

All foreign items being rebranded as desi products should come under the nomenclature "Screw India" or Screw Atmanirbhar" systems.
Trying to take the janata for a ride by making it sound as if it has been locally developed and manufactured. We have the Pralay system with similar characteristics but decide to go and import this.

Pralay a pseudo ballistic missile system as a replacement for a rocket? Apples and Oranges. These missiles are not for artillery formations but specialized missile groups that man the Brahmos kind. The cost of a Pralay is about $4 million a pop. The cost of a Prinaka Mk2 or Smerch is in the $150-$200K for each. These Israeli rockets fill a gap - the ability to get precision targeting for up to 300 KM for less than $300K. BTW: Each Brahmos is $5m a pop. If precision (<5m CEP) rockets can do the job, why spend on expensive missiles for the "same" job.

The procurement is a rushed one and a small order to fill a gap. This gap will be truly fulfilled with a Pinaka Mk3, under development. What do you want to tell the army - wait? How do you seek to destroy the 100+ disbursed locations for drone launchers?

[pravula]

indigenous Suryastra rocket system, demonstrating its ability to strike targets accurately at ranges of up to 300 km. The trials were conducted at the Integrated Test Range in Chandipur, Odisha, and met all mission objectives.

Let's call things as they are. Israeli Elbit Systems PULS rocket under Screw in India scheme.

Fixed it for you