India’s missile arsenal serves a number of purposes in New Delhi’s defense strategy. Fundamentally, its ballistic missile arsenal is a means to deliver nuclear weapons to deter both Pakistan and China. The latter requirement has pushed India to develop longer range missiles and to diversify its delivery platforms beyond mobile land-based missiles. To this end, India is developing ship- and sub-launched ballistic missiles, and has collaborated with Russia on cruise missile development. Here’s a list of India’s Ballistic missile arsenal:
1) Prithvi-I
2) Prahaar
3) Prithvi-II
4) Prithvi-III
5) Dhanush
6) Sagarika
7) Agni-1
8) Shaurya
9) Agni-2
10) Agni-4
11) Agni-3
12) Agni-5
