Pakistan's Tactical Nuclear Weapon Plan

square

Strategic Issues
Senior Member
Joined
Oct 28, 2016
Messages
1,636
Likes
1,464
The writer is a retired colonel of the Indian army and currently a research fellow at the Ministry of Defence,

https://www.google.co.in/amp/s/www.thequint.com/amp/story/voices%2Fopinion%2Fnuclear-strategy-india-pakistan

Loopholes in Pakistan's Tactical Nuclear Weapon Plan
The first hole is the premise itself – that they would be justified in using the nuclear weapon in their own territory, against invading military forces, and as such India may have second thoughts about launching a retaliatory nuclear strike. India has declared a 'no first use' nuclear weapons policy, but its doctrine also talks about 'massive retaliation' in any such situation, the cost of which would be prohibitive to Pakistan.

The second hole is the minimal impact of such Tactical Nuclear Weapons on advancing of Indian forces. Indian strike forces advancing into Pakistan in such a scenario would be mechanized columns – tanks and Infantry Combat Vehicles.
Not only are these protected from NBC (Nuclear-Biological-Chemical) attacks, their ‘vast spread’ when they move in battle formations means that just a handful of these would fall into the area over which a single Tactical Nuclear Weapon would be effective.

To give a rough idea, there would be approximately three tanks over a one-kilometre frontage of a column.

There would be multiple columns advancing along hundreds of kilometres and a single tactical device may at best knock out a couple of tanks in the immediate vicinity of the actual blast.

So how many such devices does Pakistan have, and how would they be able to use within the short window available?
 

square

Strategic Issues
Senior Member
Joined
Oct 28, 2016
Messages
1,636
Likes
1,464
.........................................
 

Srinivas_K

Senior Member
Joined
Jun 17, 2009
Messages
7,417
Likes
12,935
Country flag
They are lying again, they do have tactical news and they claimed several times in public.
 

Latest Replies

Global Defence

New threads

Articles

Top