Agni-5 Missile: The Defence Research and Development Organization spent ten years developing the Agni-r MIRV missile, which had its maiden flight on Monday.
The ground-breaking Agni-5 MIRV ballistic weapons system gives India “higher potency, better influence and denser zone,” according to Dr. V K Saraswat, a former DRDO director general and current Member of Science and Technology at NITI Aayog who was heavily involved in the system’s development. The missile, which the Defence Research and Development Organization spent ten years developing, had its first flight on Monday. This put India in a unique group of countries, changed its geopolitical and strategic position, and revolutionized the southeast Asian region.
When asked about the implications of this weapon for India’s nuclear and missile programs, Dr. Saraswat told NDTV that it would expand the weapon’s “radius of influence” by acting as a “force multiplier”.
Based on numerous Independently Targetable Re-entry Vehicle (MIRV) technology, the new weapon system can hit numerous targets at different locations at the same time with a single missile by deploying multiple nuclear warheads.
“Even with just one missile, it will cause a lot better devastation. In the event of an enemy attack, fewer missiles would need to be launched in the future. “We refer to this as a Force Multiplier,” Dr. Saraswat stated.
This, according to him, is “a major technology in terms of missile technology, control, guidance, precision” .
Smaller warheads are used by the Agni-5 MIRV to produce more impact. India is “nowhere behind” in this “evolutionary process” of nuclear technology, according to Dr. Saraswat.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi praised the Agni-5 MIRV test Thursday evening, stating he was “proud of our DRDO scientists for Mission Divyastra”.
“On X, the former Twitter, PM Modi said, “Proud of our DRDO scientists for Mission Divyastra, the maiden flight test of indigenously manufactured Agni-5 missile with Multiple Independently Targetable Re-entry Vehicle (MIRV) technology.”
It was described as a “significant milestone in India’s march towards greater geo-strategic role and capabilities” by President Droupadi Murmu.
Currently, just a few countries—the US, UK, Russia, France, and China—own the technology.
