Ya'll Nibbiars can a Salvo of bharmos easily survive any potential Pakis Mullahs air defence?. If a low flying is taken?.
A BrahMos will cross Pakistan within 4.5 minutes, the best SAM Pakistan has, HQ-16 has a range of 40km (80 diameter coverage).
If we assume that the missile passes directly over the HQ-16 SAM, the SAM will have a reaction time of
1.2 0.6 minutes.
In short -
- Can they scramble jets and shoot it down? Probably no because their response time is not better than 4 minutes.
- Can their AD shoot it down? Depends, low probability but possible if they get lucky. This is assuming BrahMos is flying a high trajectory to achieve max range.
Correction:-
Since 3 Mach speed can only be intercepted in head-on chase mode, only chance of downing a BrahMos is if HQ-16 launches the missile
before BrahMos crosses it. So the reaction time of HQ-16 drops to 1/2, that is 0.6 minutes, or approximately 36 seconds.
Conclusion:- Nearly impossible.