Missiles of India
NAME
TYPE
FEATURES
SPEED
STATUS
Agni I
Medium Range Ballistic Missile Single Stage
a) It is a Surface to Surface Missile.
b) Its range is 1250 km.
c) It weighs 12 tonnes and can carry warheads weighing up to 1 ton.
d) It is developed by DRDO
Mach 7.5
In service
Agni II
Intermediate range Ballistic Missile -Two Stage
b) Its range is 2000-2500 km, based on the warhead load.
c) It weighs 16 tonnes and can carry warheads weighing up to 1 ton.
Mach 12
Agni III
Intermediate range Ballistic Missile, Two Stage
b) Its range is 2500-3500 km, based on the warhead load.
c) It weighs 20 tonnes and can carry warheads weighing up to 1.5 to 2 ton.
5-6 km/s
Agni IV
b) Its range is 3500 – 4000 km, based on the warhead load.
c) It weighs 17 tonnes and can carry warheads weighing up to 1.5 ton.
Mach 7
Agni V
Inter Continental Ballistic Missile, Three Stage
b) Its range is 5000-8000 km, based on the warhead load.
c) It weighs 50 tonnes and can carry warheads weighing up to 1.5 ton.
Mach 24
Agni VI
Inter Continental Ballistic Missile
4 stage
b) Its range is 8000 – 12000 km, based on the warhead load.
c) It weighs 70 tonnes and can carry warheads weighing up to 3 tonnes.
Development Stage
Akash
Short Range
a) It is a surface to Air missile.
b) It has a Range of 30 km.
c) It weighs 720 kg and carry warheads up to 60 kg.
Mach 2.5 to 3.5
In Service
Astra
Beyond Visual Range
a) It is an Air to Air Missile.
b) Its range is 80 km.
c) It weighs around 154 kg and can carry warheads up to 15 kg.
d) Developed by DRDO.
Mach 4 +
Barak 1
Short range Surface to Air missile, Ship Defence
a) It is a Ship to Air and Ship to Surface Missile.
b) Its range is 12 km.
c) It weighs 98 kg and can carry warhead up to 22 kg.
In Service. Fitted upon Shivalik class Frigates
Barak 8
b) Its range is 90 km.
c) It weighs 275 kg and can carry warhead up to 60 kg
Mach 2
In Service. Fitted upon Kolkata class destroyers
Brahmos
Cruise Missile
a) It can be fired from anywhere – Land, Naval and Air.
b) Its range is 300 km.
c) It weighs 3 tonnes and can carry warhead up to 200 kg
d) It is two-stage missile, the first one being solid and the second one ramjet liquid propellant.
Mach 2.8 to 3 Mach
BrahMos II
Hypersonic Cruise Missile
a) it is the second of the BrahMos series of cruise missiles.
b) It is expected to have a range of 290 km and a speed of Mach 7.
c) It will be powered by a scramjet engine instead of a ramjet one.
under development
Dhanush
Naval Variant of Prithvi II
a) It is a sea to sea or surface missile.
b) It has a range of 350 to 750 km based on the weight of war head it carries.
c) Its weight is 4.6 tonnes and it can carry warheads weighing from 0.25 to 1 ton
K4 Missile
Submarine Launched Ballistic Missile
a) It is an underwater to surface missile with a range of 3500 km.
b) It weighs 17 tonnes and carry warheads weighing up to 2 – 2.5 tonnes.
Mach 7+
Testing phase
Nag
Fire and Forget, AntiTank missile
a) It can be launched for surface and Air to hit targets on the surface.
b) It has a short range of 4 km.
c) It weighs just 42 kg and can carry warheads weighing up to 8 kg.
230 m/s
Nirbhay
Stealth, Subsonic Cruise missile
a) It can be fired for anywhere – Land, Air and Naval.
b) It has an operational range of 1000 km.
c) It can carry warheads up to 100kg and it weighs 1 tonne
Mach 0.8
In testing phase
Prahaar
Tactical Ballistic Missile.
a) It is a Surface to Air missile.
b) It has Quick reaction feature and omni directional warheads.
c) It has an operational range of 150 km.
d) It weighs 1280 km and can carry warhead up to 200 kg.
Mach 2.03
Prithvi I
Short Range Ballistic Missile
a) It was a surface to surface missile with an operational range of 150 km.
b) It weighed 4.4 tonnes.
c) Its warhead capacity was 1 tonne
Not in service
Prithvi II
a) It is a surface to surface missile. b) It has an operational range of 350 km with a weight of 4.6 tonnes.
c) Its warhead capacity is 0.5 tonnes
Prithvi III
a) It is a surface to surface missile. b) It has an operational range of 600 km with a weight of 5.6 tonnes.
c) Its warhead capacity is 0.5 tonne
Sagarika (K15)
a) It is an underwater to surface missile with a range of 700 km.
b) It weighs 6 tonnes and can carry warheads up to 1 tonne
Shaurya
Hypersonic, Cannister launched
a) It is a Surface to surface missile with a range of 700 to 1900 km depending on the warhead weight it carries.
b) Its weight is 6.2 tonnes, with a warhead capacity of 180 – 1000 kg
Trishul
Short range for Navy I
a) It is a surface to air missile.
b) It has a range of 9 km.
c) Its weight is 130 kg. Its warhead capacity is 5 kg
Helina (HELIcopter launched NAg)
Anti-Tank Guided Missile
a) It has a range of 7–8 km
b) Launched from twin-tube stub wing-mounted launchers on board the armed HAL Dhruv and HAL Light Combat Helicopter produced by state-owned Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL)
Prithvi Air Defence (PAD)
Exo-atmospheric Anti-ballistic missile
a) It is an anti-ballistic missile developed to intercept incoming ballistic missiles outside the atmosphere
b) PAD is a two-stage missile with a maximum interception altitude of 80 km.
Mach 5+
In Service (Induction Phase)
Advanced Air Defence (AAD)
Endoatmospheric Anti-ballistic missile
It is an anti-ballistic missile developed to intercept incoming ballistic missiles in the endo-atmosphere at an altitude of 30 km.
Mach 4.5
Prithvi Defence Vehicle (PDV)
It is an anti-ballistic missile developed to intercept incoming ballistic missiles in the exo-atmosphere at an altitude of 120 km.