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(I know there's a rule against posting pics or content from books that are 'currently available', well, this book is no longer in stock anywhere I looked. including the author's own website. Amazon doesn't know if it ever will be back in stock).
These are snippets from the book 'Weapons of Peace: The Secret Story of India's Quest to be a Nuclear Power' by author-journalist Raj Chengappa.
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The Valiant project was pursued in the 70s & then shut down in the early 80s after a decision was taken to pursue solid-fueled solutions instead for longer-ranged weapons (Agni):
Thanks to member 'RationalGuy' on other forums for originally finding these pages.
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Valiant (aimed at an ICBM capability) was pursued alongside another program called Project Devil (aimed at SRBMs). Both were dealing with liquid propulsion systems. Both were shut down, although the research & tests under these programs had a direct role to play in subsequent development of the series-produced Prithvi family of liquid-fueled SRBMs, first tested in 1988. There may have been some back-end overlap with ISRO's liquid propulsion programs.
As of the longer-ranged missiles, as is apparent now, the Agni-series (all solid-fueled) took over that role.
These are snippets from the book 'Weapons of Peace: The Secret Story of India's Quest to be a Nuclear Power' by author-journalist Raj Chengappa.
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The Valiant project was pursued in the 70s & then shut down in the early 80s after a decision was taken to pursue solid-fueled solutions instead for longer-ranged weapons (Agni):
Thanks to member 'RationalGuy' on other forums for originally finding these pages.
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Valiant (aimed at an ICBM capability) was pursued alongside another program called Project Devil (aimed at SRBMs). Both were dealing with liquid propulsion systems. Both were shut down, although the research & tests under these programs had a direct role to play in subsequent development of the series-produced Prithvi family of liquid-fueled SRBMs, first tested in 1988. There may have been some back-end overlap with ISRO's liquid propulsion programs.
As of the longer-ranged missiles, as is apparent now, the Agni-series (all solid-fueled) took over that role.
