Indian Missile News And Discussion

[Arun_S]

Just some nitpicks:



[quote name='Bharat_2009' date='25 November 2010 - 07:51 AM' timestamp='1290651219' post='109447']

550 kg FBF warhead with yield of 150 kilotons (yet to be field tested but not so complex as TN warhead)[/quote]

The problem with this type is how much wg-Pu India has to make these types of warhead in respectable qty?

1900 kg @ 180 FBF warhead (Just 10 missiles can take out at least half a million to 1 million people in a city)



Instead of depending on 1 missile with 200 kilotons TN warhead, how about sending 10 or more missiles for each city in China? Our stable economy can afford mass production of any missile let alone this thin beauty.

This IMHO is the main problem for India.



The 10 x cost to build and maintain a missile force, boomer submarine force and other weapons platform, does not give India advantage of low cost to maintain a credible minimum deterrence, instead the stockpile and the # of weapons (weapon = warhead + delivery platform) required in view of Indian high-weight-to-yield-ratio warheads is so high that :

1. India today does not 1X weapons required for CMD, what to speak of mythical 10x to compensate for lack of TN.
2. the 10 X is plainly unaffordable or just blase impracticable. Imagine having 50 nuclear powered submarines, while the ground reality is that India has none today and next year it wll have one and 2 years later will have two (when INS Arihant joins).

Agni III with 3 stages (From Arun's a credible way to deterrent article)



8000 km @ 1500 kg payload ( 8 x 180 kg FBF warheads) with 140 kilotons yield. 8 MIRVs equivalent to 8 missiles. China can be targeted anywhere from India.



How about launching 10 missiles instead of one? There you go, you got 1.4 megatons effect on a single city.( It is better than depending on one missile)

the weakness of this argument is "[size="3"][color="#800080"]You cant give, what you do not have[/color][/size]" something I learned when I visited the[size="2"] Reunification Palace at Ho Chi Min city.[/size]



[color="#0000ff"]On the morning of 30 April 1975, the 43-hour-old government of South Vietnam sat quietly on the second floor of this grand building - then called the Independence Palace - waiting to transfer power to the Northern forces who were crashing through the wrought iron gates below. 'There is no question of you transferring power,' they were told by a Viet Cong officer. 'You cannot give up what you do not have.' [/color]



IOW vapourware.

Don't forget that Israel is also called a nuclear power. Did they ever conduct a nuclear test? (Well, you can say that the US tested for Israel but there is no proof, just like Chinks tested for porkis)

How many nuclear armed neighboring enemies does Israel have?