Is India developing a new long range missile ?

[roma]

in the meantime how about increasing our willingness to use short range options - viz incursions at the border - if we keep finding excuses for not applying what we already have - they will sense fear - just like some animals can sense fear

goi and people of india must face up to the fact that sooner or later there is going to be a border skirmish involving the use of weapons - it is going to be unavoidable - unless we are willing to let them keep inching away ~ eating up our land

the sooner we say "NO " - WITH WEAPONS - the sooner we stop their inching advance

 

[CrYsIs]

Last february it was revealed that India is developing a new long range missile Agni -6 with range upto 10,000 Km which can carry 10 nuclear warheads and can strike whole china , japan and russia .
Now news are also there that India is developing a new missile under India's civilian space program . A missile capable of hitting North America and with a range of 15,000 Km .

India Is also working on accurate cruise missiles and miniaturised nuclear warheads .

read more :- idrw.org/?p=21448 (4th and 5th para)

The article is from SUN DAILY ,a malaysian newspaper written by Eric Margolis who is affiliated to Institute of Regional Studies islamabad, Pakistan.

So you know the reason why this article is biased...


The "missile under civilian space program" thing he is referring to is probably GSLV MK3....

 

[natarajan]

Yes it compares india with north korea

 

[Broccoli]

may be, but miniaturized nuclear warheads are really of no use...

You cannot have MIRV's without miniaturization of nuclear weapons and that requires testing if you wan't to be sure that those weapons work.

 

[Broccoli]

Early Indian & Pak nukes Were like the Little Boy & fat man. India had advanced research facilities to build from the 1974 test a then more to missile deliverable warheads, Thanks to Indias super computers we have the benefit of simulation . 1998 tests gave as a lot of data to farther develop our warheads. Thats the reason why We are talking about MIRV.

Pakistan has no such benefit. They exploded ready bombs while India made elaborate test preparations to collect data. All Pak wanted to do was tit for tat. So the reliability of Pak nukes will always be suspect.

I guess Chinese and French did not have those computers in 1990's since they felt need to test their weapons at least five times. People can argue that India and Pakistan have thermonuclear weapons, but none can actually prove it since neither of countries have tested such weapons successfully. We know from seismic data that India and Pakistan lied about their test yields.


Pakistanis claimed they tested 40kt weapons... in reality all their test yields were less than 20kt. Indian "thermonuclear test" had a yield similar to boosted fission weapons...

The available information indicates that Shakti I could not have had a yield larger than 25 kt, but was at least 22 kt (based on Indian drilling data). The evidence offered by the Indian government to date to support the 43 kt yield claim is weak, in fact a plain reading of their own seismic evidence puts the yield at or below 25 kt. Accepting the radiological and photographic evidence for this second group of tests offered by BARC as valid, the complete absence of a seismic signal for theses shots defies explanation at the present time if the stated test time and yields are even is even remotely correct. BARC does not appear to have offered an explanation for this anomaly.

India's Nuclear Weapons Program - Operation Shakti: 1998

The consensus among outside seismic experts is that the yields of most Indian tests are overstated (particularly Pokhran-I or "Smiling Buddha" and Shakti-I), and that the very existence of Shakti IV-V is in question. Interestingly, the case with the Pakistani tests (conducted in a far different geological environment) is similar - claimed yields do not match the seismic evidence. No well-founded explanation is available for such a consistent pattern of deception by both India and Pakistan .

What Are the Real Yields of India's Tests?

 

[SATISH]

let me ask you a question when Chinese fire a small nuclear missile at you , than how you response to it ,,,,,,,,,with a smaller one or with BIGGER ONE.

With everything I got. Thats how nuclear war works.

 

[sayareakd]

I guess Chinese and French did not have those computers in 1990's since they felt need to test their weapons at least five times. People can argue that India and Pakistan have thermonuclear weapons, but none can actually prove it since neither of countries have tested such weapons successfully. We know from seismic data that India and Pakistan lied about their test yields.


Pakistanis claimed they tested 40kt weapons... in reality all their test yields were less than 20kt. Indian "thermonuclear test" had a yield similar to boosted fission weapons...



India's Nuclear Weapons Program - Operation Shakti: 1998


What Are the Real Yields of India's Tests?

that is why we should re do those TN tests, at least 6-10 next time in one go.

 

[Patriot]

YES , you are right but it depends on which country you are hitting to????
like you cant hit Chinese with your so called miniaturised nuke because they too don't retaliate with miniaturised nuke???

If you do not have nuke of very high yield like in Mega tonnes then you hit at the vital centers like source of water supply , energy generation centers fuel & arms/ missile depos along with key population centers to get the maximum crippling long lasting damage.