China feels India's nuclear heat

[angeldemon_007]

We need SLBM version of all, Agni 3,4,5.....

 

[IND151]

^^ why SLBM based on Agni 3 when we have SLBMs based on Agni 4 or 5?

 

[tvsram1992]

^^ why SLBM based on Agni 3 when we have SLBMs based on Agni 4 or 5?

less weight, more accuracy

 

[SinoChallenger]

Ben Doherty
December 3, 2011



NEW DELHI: Given the incendiary moniker ''the China killer'' by the more sensationalist press, India's newest nuclear-capable missile will be its most powerful yet - and an unmistakable signal to its neighbours.

Agni V - named after the Hindu god of fire - is due to be tested within three months. It will be capable of carrying a nuclear warhead 5000 kilometres, meaning it can reach not only Beijing and Shanghai but all of northern China.

India's existing arsenal can already reach every corner of Pakistan using earlier models of the Agni delivery system.

Indian officials are at pains to reiterate the country's no-first-strike policy, but the new muscular armoury is feeding regional anxieties about a hastening arms race.

India was recently declared by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute as the biggest arms importer in the world - ahead of China - with 70 per cent of a $US32.5 billion defence budget spent on hardware and weapons from overseas.

''We are not looking at how many missiles China or Pakistan has,'' said V.K. Saraswat, the chief of the Indian government's Defence Research & Development Organisation. ''With a 'no-first-use' nuclear weapons policy, we only want a sufficient number of missiles to defend the country in the event of a crisis. Ours is a defensive-mode strategy, even if others have offensive postures.''

While regional concerns are loudest, India's improvement of its present nuclear capability comes at a sensitive juncture for Australia too.

At the Labor Party's national conference this weekend, one agenda item is a motion to end the ban on uranium sales to India, a non-signatory to the nuclear non-proliferation treaty.

The move, unveiled by the Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, a fortnight ago, is expected to become Labor policy.

Australian uranium sales to countries with nuclear weapons programs come with strict provisos that Australian uranium is used only for civilian purposes.

But uranium is fungible. And a new market offering high-grade uranium ore for India's civilian reactors frees up the country's limited local supplies for boosting its military program.

India has been developing its Agni category ballistic missiles for nearly a decade, with each edition capable of greater range, and carrying a larger warhead, than its predecessor.

It was three years between the testing of Agni III and the first, failed, test of Agni IV.

But Agni IV was successfully fired on November 15 and already there are rumours Agni V will be ready to test before the end of the year.

''Agni V is presently undergoing integration and we may test fire it by the end of February. It is right on schedule and the successful test of Agni IV will prove to be a building block in development of this missile,'' Mr Saraswat said.

The pace of missile development is of particular concern to China, which feels that the latter Agni iterations are being built specifically with it in mind.

The People's Daily, the official organ of the Chinese Communist Party, wrote: ''India is expanding its military strength but it is still uncertain whether India will realise its dream of being a leading power, because India's weak economy is severely unmatched with the image of a leading military power.

''In addition, international communities and India's surrounding countries are all suspecting and even being on guard against this kind of unbalanced development mode.''

China's nuclear arsenal still dwarfs India's. Beijing is believed to have about 410 nuclear warheads - some estimates put it much higher - to India's 70.

Pakistan, meanwhile, has long resented India's Agni missile program. Islamabad loudly proclaims the superiority of its own Shaheen missiles and derides its neighbour's attempts as ''incompetent''.

Pakistan officials are saying less now that India's missiles have a greater range than theirs.

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Only heat is coming out of orfice. The Agni-4 and Agni-5 are early in development. Barely got the second stage separation to work. It will be many many years (5+ probably) to get them operational like Agni-1 just became truly a reliable and operational missile.

China feels what we have. We feel what China has

Keep your missile in its canister. We aren't into that. And don't give me any of that chini hindi bhai bhai.

 

[wmdisinfo]

india with 100-200 nukes is trying to mess with china having estimated 3000 nukes.impossible

 

[Mytime]

Exaggerating aren't you guys again ? China has ICBM's and decades ahead of India in missile technology ... Why would they feel the heat ?

They would feel the heat because we are finally catching up ....

 

[Abhishek_]

india with 100-200 nukes is trying to mess with china having estimated 3000 nukes.impossible

not trying to mess with them. we have a deterrence doctrine.

 

[ashokdeiva]

China need not feel the heat of Indian Nukes and India will also not feel the heat of Chinas Nuks until both of us push the trigger in the aims of destroying each other and looking like fools in the international arena.

 

[Polemos]

Number of nukes has nothing to do with it. It is just a matter of deterrence. Would China take a chance, a possibility that its glittering achievements(Shanghai, Guangdong etc.) would be evaporated in a nuclear strike? The same deterrence that protected Pakistan post Mumbai.

 

[Aramsogo]

india with 100-200 nukes is trying to mess with china having estimated 3000 nukes.impossible

India doesn't even have the hydrogen bomb. A few tiny warheads does not worry anybody.

 

[Abhishek_]

India doesn't even have the hydrogen bomb. A few tiny warheads does not worry anybody.

feel free to complain to the australian media.

 

[joekrish]

Only heat is coming out of orfice. The Agni-4 and Agni-5 are early in development. Barely got the second stage separation to work. It will be many many years (5+ probably) to get them operational like Agni-1 just became truly a reliable and operational missile.


Keep your missile in its canister. We aren't into that. And don't give me any of that chini hindi bhai bhai.

India china bye bye

 

[S10]

China has been the target for USSR and American ICBMs for decades. I doubt they're concerned about a few more missiles from India.

 

[manojb]

OK. China has, and we dont have. Now go back to Gotham city

..and 'play' with robin.
On topic.. i like the last couple of para..

 

[rissriva]

india with 100-200 nukes is trying to mess with china having estimated 3000 nukes.impossible

Tell me .. how much more damage 3000 nukes can do in comparison to 200. Nothing will be left to destruct after using quite a few.

So what do you think, is it a achievement to keep 3000 nukes in arsenal ? India can also have this number of stock pile... but for us in the event of eventualities with both Pakistan and China together, 150 nukes will be more than sufficient.