Indian Missile News And Discussion

[Arun_S]

For those who know the domain, the Pok-I TN experiment that fizzled, was meant to realize TN in sufficient qty while being cost conscious due to Indian settings. And that design is incompatible for submarine based deployment.



Let me just say that going ultra super grade Pu for submarine launched TN warhead is impractical for India because India have extremely constrained availability of ultra-super grade Pu, just because India simply does not enough military reactors to get that kind of juice to flow.



It is for a reason US NPA want to target and clampdown Indian mil Uranium enrichment capacity in Mysore. It is that TN connection fo rsubmarine version. And that version was no where in teh range of experiments done in Pok-II, irrespective of R Chidambram's fizzle specialization.



So TN for submarine does require new type of TN design & validation.