Shrouded in secrecy for its political implications, the first visual impressions of India’s most ambitious nuclear delivery system, the Agni-5 ballistic missile, are out. Officials with the Agni programme in Hyderabad confirmed the pictures were an accurate depiction of the in- development weapon.

On February 10, Agni programme director Dr Avinash Chander had told Headlines Today, “The Agni-5 looks similar to the Agni-3, except that it is longer as a result of an additional propulsion stage.”

Still at least a year away from its first test-firing-an official estimate says February 2011- the Agni-5 has already acquired a formidable global reputation. In October last year, in its first ever reference to an Indian weapon programme, China’s state-owned People’s Daily newspaper pointed out that “India’s Agni-5 missile is highly road-mobile, and effectively puts Harbin, China’s northernmost city within striking range.”

The Agni-5 is being built to deliver a nuclear warhead out to ranges of 5,000-6,000/ km. Sources reveal that 60 per cent of the first Agni-5 missile system is complete, with work now focused on the weapon’s crucial third stage. Scientists are currently tweaking the missile’s payload structure, introducing extra heating and making alterations to the re- entry mechanism.

The missile will also be India’s first to be propelled by a composite rocket motor as opposed to a metallic one. With the 3,500-km-range Agni-3 to enter service with India’s Strategic Forces Command- which governs all nuclear weapons- this year, the Agni-5 will be put through a similar four-flight trial between 2011-2013.

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On Sunday, 13th December 2009 India successfully test fired its nuclear-capable ballistic missile ‘Dhanush’, with a range of 350 km, from a naval ship off the Orissa coast. The single-stage ship-based missile was flight-tested at around 11.30 am and the trial was successful, defence sources said.

‘Dhanush’ has a payload capacity of 500 kg and is capable of carrying both conventional and nuclear warheads. It can hit both sea and shore-based targets. The missile, which has liquid propellant, is the naval version of India’s indigenously developed surface-to-surface ‘Prithvi’ missile system, the sources said.

“Dhanush, being developed by Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), was put to trial jointly by a team of scientists and officers from the Navy,” they said.

“Today’s test launch has been tracked from its take-off to impact point through an integrated network of sophisticated radars and electro-optic instruments for post-mission data analysis,” the sources said.

The missile had failed in its first test at the development stage on April 11, 2000 due to certain technical problems relating to the take-off stage but subsequent trials were successful. The last trial of ‘Dhanush’ was successfully conducted from a naval ship off Orissa coast on March 30, 2007, the sources said.