Nuclear arsenal

Nuclear arsenal - INDIA

[http://www.ploughshares.org/world-nuclear-stockpile-report]

Indian nuclear forces:

Mirage 200H/ jaguar IS/IB : Each has a range about 1800 km and payload capacity of 6300

Squadron 1 and 7 of gwalior air force station have been assigned nuclear secondary attack missions.

Prithivi 1 : range is about 150 km and payload capacity is about 1000 kg, surface to surface missile.

Agni 1: range is about 750 km and payload capacity is 1000 kg

remaining land based nuclear weapons are currently not deployed. Agni II has failed 8 times and after 8 unsuccessful tests , it has passed 2 tests.

Agni II:

Dhanush: Range is about 350 km, payload capacity is about 500 kg.

Sagarika: Range is about 300-700 km and payload capacity - 300-700 kg

[Indian nuclear forces, 2012
Hans M. Kristensen and Robert S. Norris]

Recently in 2012 Agni V has been successfully tested. Its range is more than 5000 miles and can carry upto 1500 kg of payload.

Agni V has a maximum range of 8000 km. Agni V is an intercontinental ballistic missile. These missiles are developed by very few countries and INDIA is one among them . Now Agni VI is under development and Pruthivi II is also underdevelopment.

Prithivi - II is an airforce version missile with a range about 250km
Prithivi - III is navy version with a range about 350 km

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