Wrong thread !
[quote name='Kritavarma' date='27 November 2010 - 01:37 AM' timestamp='1290801580' post='109476']
Arunji,
1. Your article on the deterrent also suggests that access to a high energy laboratory facility would suffice to confirm that the fixed TN is indeed fixed and make the TN credible. Is this route close to being as good as a field test ? [/quote]
Yes, but only when India builds, operated and sustains high energy lab manned with two independent teams of physicists & weaponeers to keep. the system honest
SLBM warheads, need to be TN (a different kind compared to land based of TN weapons, and dependent on rare earth - Mysore), thus IMHO require test.
What is done in stealth, inspires confidence to designers.
What is shown in field inspires confidence in end user and deterrence in challenger heart.
Three different audiences.
[quote name='Kritavarma' date='27 November 2010 - 01:37 AM' timestamp='1290801580' post='109476']
Arunji,
1. Your article on the deterrent also suggests that access to a high energy laboratory facility would suffice to confirm that the fixed TN is indeed fixed and make the TN credible. Is this route close to being as good as a field test ? [/quote]
Yes, but only when India builds, operated and sustains high energy lab manned with two independent teams of physicists & weaponeers to keep. the system honest
Quote:2. What about the SLBM warheads ? Are they too, based on this corrected TN or are they different, requiring fresh field tests ?
SLBM warheads, need to be TN (a different kind compared to land based of TN weapons, and dependent on rare earth - Mysore), thus IMHO require test.
Quote:3. Will TSP/Chn be aware of our access to Russian/French high energy facilities if there is such access (your post above suggests there is)? Will this awareness make our TN credible in their eyes ?
What is done in stealth, inspires confidence to designers.
What is shown in field inspires confidence in end user and deterrence in challenger heart.
Three different audiences.