As I said, there is nothing anyone can do about ASAT missiles. China can use them against India but so can USA> Don't forget that USA has great relation with Pakistan and their allies of Arabland. So, what is the point you want to convey? India should do magic?
Because Pakistani missiles will be flying at the direction of India from Pakistan and will not be coming via arabian sea. Only Arabs can fire missile from Arabian sea. So, what is the point of keeping BMD ships on the Sea?
I don't remember AAD/PAD being deployed!
Your thinking is simplistic for it assumes that Pakistan is the only country capable of potential for hostility towards us. There is absolute need for India to have BMD system both in oceans and on the land borders.
For that we need mid-course interceptor which intercepts missile at over 500km altitude which will be similar to ASAT missile. Only USA has such system called GMD. Each interceptor missile costs $75 million and the system is not fully developed. India has not even started such program for mid course intercept
The missile is detected way before it enters terminal phase and hence it is easier to hit it at terminal phase than boost phase. During boost phase, one gets the launch detection only after the missile is launched and going up. The problem is twofold:
How will you make any missile fly fast from the beginning? There is no missile which is capable of doing that from the begin
... and since ABM needs to cover smaller distance in comparison to the BM, it needs to carry less fuel; this means it is lighter in design and can travel faster to catch up with the BM. So it is not impossible to shoot down a ballistic missile.
Seems like flights of fancy unencumbered by the laws of physics
The purpose of ABM is to increase the cost of the adversary to target us. ABM is used in terminal stage. It is used to protect our cities from IRBMs and in future ICBMs. Even if it is 80% efficient then we have now seeded a doubt in our adversary about the effectiveness of their arsenal. To remove doubt they have to expand their arsenal to ensure total destruction. This is too expensive even for China forget about Pakistan. Imagine this Pakistan has no protection against our missiles but we have something that will protect us from 80% (worst case) of their missiles. Also, every time they launch a missile, the position of their launch facility or TEL is exposed, which we can then destroy with Brahmos. Check how many TELs pakisan has. Once their launch facilities are gone, they have no offensive capabilities at all.
You still want to knock out the BM in the boost phase, right?
if BM is slow in its initial trajectory, how does your magic interceptor go onto being 'fast' even when in its upward trajectory without incurring excess drag and requiring more powerful engine that guzzles more fuel?? Do the principles of propulsion & rocketry differ between these two missiles?
What are you talking about. Pakistan cannot sustain any costs - they don't have money to buy toilet paper right now and you are talking about 100s of billions?? They cannot spend money that they do not have. Also, as I mentioned before we are so close to them that we can put 24x7 surveillance (both human and electronic) on all their launch facilities. In the best case we detect their TELs and other launch facilities before they are able to launch anything and in the worst case they launch and we detect it immediately and destroy their launch facilities (we don't need fancy space based detectors either). If they do manage to launch any missile towards our big cities it will be taken care of in terminal phase. We **may** have to sustain some damage and how much is up to us to determine - so answer this question - How much are you willing to lose to prevent the green flag from flying over our important buildings? Launch over small cities is pointless as the accuracy of their missiles are so bad that they may miss it altogether. One more thing the puny nukes (5-20kt) that pakistan claim to have are not powerful enough to cause any significant damage to small indian cities especially if they miss their mark. Ergo, they will only try to target big cities in the hope of doing some damage.
BPI is terribly expensive. It is easier and cheaper to take out their launch facilities before they can launch anything. We have many dual use Geosynchronous satellites and enough agents in Pakistan (they are much more corrupt than us) that we can detect and destroy it if they so much as start mobilising against us. With S400 (and any MRSAM we can build in time) we can also bottle up their air force even before they have a chance to take off. Only thing remaining is their submarines with SLCMs - for that we need protection against CMs ergo the NASAMs buy. Also the various QRSAM systems being developed inducted. Anyway with diesel electric subs once they launch they are dead.
I don't see any reason China would use ballistic missiles on India. China has no big reason to start an all out war with Inia
Exactly - what is the point of trying BPI when you can just destroy the launch facilities before they have a chance to launch. For anything that they do try to launch - terminal phase interception is good enough. BPI is not foolproof either.
Did China give you an affidavit on stamped paper that they will never target us? Especially when they have several IRBMs and MRBMs in Tibet pointed towards us.
You think nuclear weapon is their blackmail??? hahaha. Their real blackmail is threatening us with the consequences of a successful Indian strike on their facilities - Remember Syria and Europe. Do we have a solution for that?
