[iwar] India to conduct more tests of Agni I, Prithvi missiles - PTI Story

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Date: 2002-12-31 04:22:02
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Press Trust of India story

India to conduct more tests of Agni I, Prithvi
missiles 
Press Trust of India
New Delhi, December 31 
 
With the 2,500 km longer range surface to surface
missile Agni II becoming operational, India will
conduct more tests of its 600 km shorter range variant
Agni I in the next few weeks, country's top Defence
scientist Dr V K Aatre said today. 
Along with Agni I test, tests of missiles like
Indo-Russian supersonic cruise missile Brahmos,
surface to air Akash and anti-tank Nag missile would
also be undertaken, he said.

"We are undertaking more tests of shorter range Agni
to test the missile in its various configurations
before its induction," Aatre told newsmen on the eve
of the Defence Research and Development Organisation
(DRDO) day tomorrow.

This would be second test of the single-stage solid-
propelled Agni I missile with a range between 600-800
kms, Aatri said adding "the range fills the gap
between Prithvi and intermediate Range Ballistic
Missile."

He said the shorter-range Agni missile can be launched
from rail-and-road missile launcher giving it a high
strike mobility.

In his wide-ranging interaction with media, the
Scientific Adviser to the Defence Minister said during
the year DRDO had achieved major breakthrough with its
low level UAV Nishant clearing all tests, pilot-less
target aircraft Lakshya on successful development
being inducted into the IAF and the Navy.

On Light Combat Aircraft (LCA), he said that 48 test
flights have been undertaken and the second prototype
would have flight trials in the next few days and the
third one in July next year.

Elaborating on LCA, Aatre said to accelerate the pace
of development and flight trials, five more prototypes
were being built with the aircraft planned to be
inducted into the IAF after initial operational
clearance in 2005/06.

He said by the middle of next year, the aircraft would
reach supersonic speed and between 2010 and 2015, the
IAF would have four operational squadrons of the LCA.

For the first time, Aatre, who is also secretary of
the DRDO, said the organisation had developed remote
mine-sensing radars and mounted them on safari
vehicles and SUJAV directional finder and jamming
radars. They were even delivered to Army and Para
Military forces for counter insurgency operations.

He said Safari could mute and even detonate Improvised
Explosive Devices being used by militants in Jammu and
Kashmir adding that Army had orderded 500 of them
after putting them to field trials.

Aatre said that an agreement had been signed with
South Africa for producing 155MM self-propelled guns
in India to be Chistened Bhim.

Turning to missile, he said, Brahmos would be tested
in its anti-ship mode and later on trials would be
launched for its air-to-ground and ship-to-shore
variant. He said that Brahmos would be configurated to
be fitted in SU-30 fighter aircraft.

Asserting that technical problems on the medium range
surface-to-air Akash missile had been identified, he
said the missile along with anti-tank Nag would be
ready for user trial early next year. 

Aatre admitted to setbacks in the multi-targeting
surface-to-air missile Trishul and on its sea-skimming
variant saying that for the time being, the missile
had been put on the backburner.

On the development of the country's first-ever Aero
Engine, Kaveri, he said after a short delay, the
engine was ready for high altitude tests in Russia.

"The spinoff project of developing the marine version
of engine has now been taken up", he said.

On Nishant, he said its reliability and consistency in
performance had been established and limited serial
production on army's order was likely to commence
soon.

He said a number of countries had evinced interest in
the indigenous PTA adding that three tests flights of
pilotless target aircraft had been undertaken for
Israel.

Besides, Missiles and LCA, Aatre said that the DRDO
had also achieved major breakthroughs in Radar
technology with the successful trials of Man portable
short range Battlefield
Surveillance Radars (BESR) and the three dimensional
Medium Range Radar (CAR) capable of tracking several
targets simultaneously.

"The three services have evinced keen interest in CAR
and its derivatives, while the BESR systen has been
recommended for induction", he said.

Aatre said that Gallium Arsenide Enabling Technology
centre had produced and delivered Monolithic Microwave
integrated circuits amplifier modules in several
frequency bands for defence and space application and
termed it an important achievement for self reliance.
 
  

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