India's Missile Strength

Brahmos

It's  a medium-range supersonic ramjet cruise missile that can be launched from submarine, ships, aircraft, or land. It is a joint venture between the Russian Federation's NPO Mashinostroyeniya and India's Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO).The names of this missile derived from two rivers, the Brahmaputra of India and the Moskva of Russia.

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One interesting fact of Brahmos is that it is not used by Russia. Russia has valid points for not using Brahmos lets dig into it. Russia  has huge missile faculty, they are using P-800 which is also similar to Brahmos

Difference between Brahmos and P-800

• The speed of P-800 is 2.6 Mach where Brahmos can travel at a speed of 2.8 to 3 Mach which gives Brahmos upper hand.
• Russia started producing P-800 during 1987 and in 1988 Russia and India started a joint venture for Brahmos. Its first ground tests took place in 2001 which means Russia already had P-800 a decade before Brahmos came into existence
• The length of the P-800 is 8.9 m and Brahmos is 8.4. Diameter 0.7 and Brahmos is 0.6.
• The range of P-800 is more than  600km and Brahmos is nearly 300km but recently it is tested for  500km. P-800 is also ahead of Brahmos when it comes to a warhead it can carry about 300 kgs and 200kg respectively. Both missiles can be launched from land, water, and air.
• Russia also has hypersonic missiles ZIRCON  and KiINZHAL of 8 and 10Mach.
•  Political reason- if Russia uses Brahmos it would have a negative impact on their Defence industry and Brahmos produced only in India if they import it would be like wasting money. In whole Russia does not need Brahmos because they have similar missiles like P-800

Prithvi

It is a short-range ballistic missile. This missile has three variants.

PRITHVI I- Ballistic missile, Range 150 km, Speed 2.5 km/sec, Payload 1000 kgs,nuclear-capable, Engine single-stage liquid propellant, only launched from land-based erector launcher. But, it is phased out.

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»PRITHVI II- Ballistic, Range 250-350 km, Speed 2.5 km/sec, Payload 500–1000 kgs, nuclear-capable, Engine single-stage liquid propellant, launched from land-based erector launcher.

»PRITHVI III- used by navy known as Dhanush.Range 359–750 km,Speed 2.5 km/sec,Payload 250-1000 kg,nuclear-capable, Engine single-stage liquid propellant,Launch platform naval

Agni

The Agni missile is a family of medium to intercontinental-range ballistic missiles developed by India.It's the most popular missile among Indians. On every Republic Day, thousands of people gather at Rajpath just to see Agni missiles in a parade. India has four variants of Agni missiles namely Agni I, II, III, IV and working on Agni V.

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 Agni-I is a short or intermediate-range ballistic missile. It was first tested at the interim test range in Chandipur off the coast of Orissa, India, in May 1989. The missile can carry a conventional payload of 1,000kg or a nuclear warhead and has a range between 700km and 800km. These are transported by rail and road, and powered by solid propellants.

Agni II is a medium-range ballistic missile equipped with two solid-fuel stages. It was test-fired in April 1999. he missile has a range of more than 2,000km and can reach most of the western, central and southern parts of China. A tank missile with top-attack, fire and forget capability was also inducted into service.

Agni III  was test-fired in July 2006 from Wheeler Island but failed to reach its target. It was successfully test-fired in April 2007. The third test in May 2008 proved the operational readiness of the missile. With a circular error probable under a 40m range, the missile is considered one of the most accurate strategic ballistic missiles of its range class in the world.

Agni IV missile was first tested in November 2011 from the Wheeler Island. It rose to an altitude of 900km during the test. It was successfully test-fired again in September 2012. It reached an altitude of 850km during its third test in January 2014. The missile was also successfully test-fired in January 2017.

Sagarika Missile

Also known by the code names K-15 or B-05 is a nuclear-capable submarine-launched ballistic missile with a range of 750 kilometers. It belongs to the K Missile family these missiles were made under the secret project name 'Black Project'. The term 'k' is as a tribute to Indian Missile man A.P.J Kalam. Under this project, three variants of missiles are made K-15, K-4, and K-5 and these missiles can be launched from Arihant class submarines.

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K-15(Sagarika) is a short-range ballistic missile and its land version is know as Shaurya missile. The length of K-15 is 33 feet and the diameter is 2.4 feet. It has two engines and it covers a distance between  700-1500km with speed of 7.5Mach. In 2015 with this missile India became a sixth member of elite countries(US, Russia, China, France, and the Uk)capable of launching a nuclear missile from land, water, and air.

Nirbhay Subsonic Cruise Missile

It's a first indigenously designed and developed long-range sub-sonic cruise missile from a test in Odisha. Subsonic cruise missile flies at a speed lesser than that of sound. It travels at a speed of around 0.8 Mach and can cover the distance between 1000-1500kn. Some other examples are Harpoon of USA and Exocet of France. A cruise missile locates its target or has a navigator. Cruise missiles generally consist of a guidance system, payload and aircraft propulsion system, housed in an airframe and small wings and empennage for flight control. Before the successful test DRDO failed four times before the successful test.

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NGARM

NGARM stands for anti-radiation missile, with strike range of around 100km and DRDO trying to take this up to 125km. It is the first indigenous air to ground missile. Here radiation refers to electromagnetic radiation, such as light and radio waves. Especially, in this case, the radio waves from a radar unit.

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HARM , is the USA's premiere Anti-Radiation Missile. It's primarily used to shut down and destroy the radar systems used to guide SAM missiles against aircraft. Rather than destroy every individual launcher, if you take out the radar system, the missiles cannot fire. An IFA tracking this mission says NGARM is essential for war-fighting and a home-grown one gives more options on different fighter assets.