The next variant of Agni having a range of 5,000 km will be inducted into the armed forces withing four years, a senior DRDO scientist said today. "The next variant will also be fully indigenous and will be able to strike at over 5000 km range besides carrying heavy payloads ... It would be a multiple warhead missile with a capacity to carry four to 12 warheads," Advanced System Laboratory Director Avinash Chander said here.He was speaking at a talk on "Technology management for integrated guided missile programme with special reference to Agni intercontinental missile" at the DAV Institute of Engineering and Technology.
He said the system would be meticulously designed so that the missile's direction and target could be changed in air. "We are trying to attain an accuracy level of 100 metres," he said.
The Agni variant will be three-stage solid propulsion with road mobility with composite rocket motors, he said.