Indian Missile News And Discussion

[osman]

Additionally thats 4 launch tubes x 4 missiles x 9 submarines = 144 nukes without MIRV. Some of the later subs will likely be hunter killers. So India is building both kinds of subs or maybe all three kinds. They want 12 nuclear submarines ... with 3 out of commission or on backup patrols thats 9 subs. I would assume we will use 4 subs for the ballistic role and the rest will be special ops and hunter-killer roles. Well all of this assumes we have four misslies per silo as shown in the figure. With MIRV the numbers will change dramatically. Maybe we won't need four missiles per silo. One misslie will be enough per silo ... Interesting choices ... But then again who knows ... It's all guess work ...



This seems to favor arun_s point of view on the fizzile debate and the corrected bums being not MIRV-able in submarines atm ... or it could also be the first stage before MIRV after a few more nuclear tests ... Unkil is bound to test his nukes in the next decade or so. I think that's when we test on their tail.