As part of its weapons firing tests, the Arihant SSBN will go out to sea and very soon fire, submerged, the 750km range,solid fuel, K-15 SLBM, some two years after the last (from 20 meters) underwater pontoon launch off Vizag. Since the first test firing in 2008, 4-5 missiles have been launched from the underwater pontoon pad. Hopefully, DRDO will follow up the forthcoming one by firing other longer-range SLBMs in quick order. There’s just too long an interval between missile test-firings and hence delays in their induction. For instance, an Agni-5 test launch was slated for sometime in Oct-Nov 2015 but hasn’t taken place yet. In any case, the triggering of K-15 from the Indian SSBN will be a nice end-event, in a manner of speaking, to the IFR, though to make a much bigger strategic splash a China, for example, would have gone in for a more “in your face” timing of this launch to just around the time the fleet review got underway.
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Respected Mr.karnad, What’s the reason for this pusillanimous attitude & lack of strategic culture in G.o.I?Cant be civilizational or India wouldn’t have produced men like Chanakya & empires like Maurya, Gupta.We still haven’t transferred the Brahmos to Vietnam leave alone nuclear arming them.
andy@ — reason? no political will or strategic vision.
Bharat Sir,
Is the delay in Agni-V testing due to DRDO or due to political red lights ? Will the next Agni-V test be MIRVed ?
Political. MIRVing test imminent, but also political.
MIRVing test on Agni V itself ? Or does that need Agni VI ? Are you sure such a test is imminent not immanent ? ISRO only recently tested the restart capability of the PSLV 4th stage…
A-5.