Annual Japanese white paper

[Yusuf]

The Japanese whilte paper on defence is out.

Link to the entire white paper is here
http://www.mod.go.jp/e/publ/w_paper...er&utm_content=buffer81883&utm_medium=twitter


The South Asia part is here http://www.mod.go.jp/e/publ/w_paper/pdf/2013/14_Part1_Chapter1_Sec6.pdf

 

[Yusuf]

Japan puts range of A5 at 5000-8000 kms and says India is developing A6 of 8000-10,000km range.

Based on the nuclear doctrine of 2003, India adheres to the following policies: minimum nuclear deterrence, the non-first-use obligation, no use against non-nuclear weapon states, and maintaining the unilateral moratorium on nuclear tests that it announced immediately after the nuclear test in 1998. India promotes the development and deployment of various ballistic missiles. In recent years, it has successfully launched Prahaar (range of 150km) in July 2011, Agni 4 (range of 3,500km) in November 2011, and Agni 5 (range of 5,000–8,000km) in April 2012, for the first time in all cases. India is reported to have started developing Agni 6 (range of 8,000–10,000km)3, in pursuit of improving the performance by extending the range of ballistic missiles. A ballistic missile defense system is also under development and interception tests were successfully carried out in February and November 2012.