Remember when China did the same how these Western hypocrites ganged up and were up in arms? Accusing China of spreading debris in space. This is probably the first condemnation that I am reading about.
The satellite was intercepted at a very low perigee. Debris is likely to last in orbit for a week only, three weeks at max.
Today their little slave did the same, but everyone is quiet.
A strategically autonomous nation which has been mostly neutral since formation of its current establishment isn't supposed to be called a slave when India has maintained its stances even after being technically at war for decades and facing open hostilities from West in formative decades of independence. It's us who screwed the hegemony of P5 nations in almost every sector and made sure that world can never ignore us.
Slave is a better word for UK & Pakistan who switch their masters after every few decades. Once they get new one, they become thankless to former one.
I hope some debris hits satellites and causes damage.
Tough luck, nothing else was operational at that perigee and inclination.
it is indeed the best time for pakistan to test similar missile if they posses ... coz now atleast they have strong argument for world that they did it in response of indian test . .. and if we do not posses it we should atleast start developing something similar to SC-19 ASAT
No, Pakistan doesn't. This technology took decades to mature for China & India (faster for USSR & US as they had been investing billions during cold war).
First you have to practice to have a reliable launcher to insert the object in orbit at high altitude. Making such reliable orbital launcher will take decades. Rest comes with the development of kinetic kill vehicles, advanced seekers and other vital missile technologies.
If you have an ASAT, maturity of your Air Defence and ABM knowhow is confirmed. India produces 90 out of 94 existing missile technologies. Next is XR-SAM, Indian equivalent of S-400 and HQ-9.
The United States detected the missile the moment it was fired. Damn, they really have a strong surveillance network.
They have their missile tracking ships around Southeast Asia and they move them near Bay of Bengal during every Indian missile test.
infect india was not in need of any such type of deterrent because its arch rival pakistan has only two or three satellites in space
but if it is aimed for china or other powers.... then it has already ring the the bell
Pakistan was never arch rival of India. Neither India views Pak as "arch rival" nor Pak tries/can match India in everything. Only Pakistani fanboys think that. This India-Pakistan hyphenation was started by western analysts in 60s. Increasing gap between powers of two has left this hyphenation at brink of collapse.
Yes, India is worried about Pakistan. But not in the way Pakistan is for sure. It's an irritant and potential proxy of other countries that may bother India in future. If Pakistan was never created, India would have direct access Central Asia and exports after 1991 would have doubled our economy. Our 0.7 million (nearly half) of troops won't be wasting focused on a single point.
At first place, if India ever saw Pakistan as an arch rival, it wouldn't have series very long range ships, missiles and number of strategic weapons it possesses today.
Pakistan is a chapter of India's national security concerns, one chapter only. Neither first or nor one of first chapter. And since 1991, this chapter has been losing its importance.
Resembles the Israeli Arrow missile:
Looks like they bought off the shelve Israeli missile components to make there A-Sat.
Not sure if you are trolling or you actually got hyoermetropia.
Go back at previous page and compare again. Just having visible stages won't make it Israeli (as most ASATs have that). XSV-1 (Indian ASAT) has its first stage from Agni 2 Prime while upper stage from PDV high altitude exo atmospheric anti ballistic missile.
India's ASAT test is an offset of its ABM. 2016 PDV was comparable to THAAD missile while XSV-1 is comparable to any good midcourse interceptor. Officially, India can intercept satellites and targets with direct hit at an altitude upto 2,000 kms (means MIRV & ICBMs too).
The test reflects that India's anti missile shield is far more advanced than its shown usually.
The United States took aim at India’s anti-satellite weapons test with acting Pentagon chief Patrick Shanahan saying “We all live in space. Let’s not make it a mess.”
Pentagon is a small private company?
So, what his statement gonna do?
Historically Pakistan has always responded to the challenges triggered by india including nuclear capability, missile capabilities and other lethal stuff. In this dimension may be Pakistan is already working , because when pakistan conducted two stage nuclear missile hataf-2 test a decade ago than at that time Pervez Musharraf said that our next step would be in space technology. so this has added just more fuel to arms race but for the time being indians deserve to cherish the moment
India never posed challenges to Pakistan. Balance of power has ceased to exist after 1971 leaving India the only regional power in Indian Subcontinent as well as in regions around Indian Ocean. Though, Pakistan uses Kashmir issue and its hyped "rivalry" with India to encash situation and earn attention from world.
Pakistan got very basic nuclear tech, HEU based linear implosion bombs as compared to India's three stage nuclear program which deals with nearly every kind of nuclear civil/military technologies.
Pakistan has just a small array of ballistic & cruise missiles, again while India has forayed into every aspect of missile technologies. Or be it Pakistani media comparing Nasr test with Indian Mars mission.
India struck deep inside Pak while Pakistan just came to play along border with a complete squadron against 8 old planes. It's all just a drama to show Pakistani people that it too has deterrent meanwhile it stands nowhere near in extent.
Moreover, there are a lot of fields which Pakistanis never heard of while India is one of leaders there.
BTW, its funny to see neighbouring people dancing, believing that
we'll also do it because they did it. This job was not simple. India shot down a very small object moving at 7.5-8 kilometers per second out of earth's orbit. It didn't do it suddenly. Technologies had been being worked upon for decades.
It is what has happened in feb and march that triggered them to test this. The eye in the sky was used to detect their intent so they are sending a message. Pakistan needs to do the same so that they know that pakistan can also render them blind if the need arise.
A Pakistani ASAT, even if Pakistan is able to get hands on SC-19 technology, won't make the threat big for India.
From June this year, India is going to start its quick launch rocket called SSLV. It's comparable Minataur (USA), START-1 (Russia) and Kuaizhou (China). These rockets are the solution to ASAT systems. They can be quickly assembled and launched in a very short span of time to compensate the destroyed satellite again.
Spending money on weapon related technologies when it
1. India doesn't have largest number of poor people and continues to go down the list. India has one of highest poverty escape rates in world and has a very high public welfare budget.
2. India doesn't spend lot of money on defence/space. Our space/military budget keeps falling in percentage every year while increasing in numbers every year. Because economy has been growing much faster since 1993.
Yeah, our budget is large because of our economy. In percentage, it will have a sudden increase only after we become an upper middle income economy.
1. India does not have highest number of impoverished people. That country is Nigeria. Under 25% of our population lives in poverty.
5.7% in July 2018. Nigeria and Congo have bigger number of poor people despite having just a fraction of India's population.
2. What makes you think any country will take your concerns about militarization seriously? Especially since most of the world believes you need to do more against terrorism. Conversely, most countries support India.
World doesn't have any problem with Pakistan promoting terrorism.
The same countries who justified India's action over Pulwama episode would have put sanctions on India in case of any direct military expedition.
Either of them wouldn't want to strain relationship with India for no reason. But at the same time, Pakistan is a very useful proxy to keep India busy south Asia only.
Better is to keep tightening screw on Pakistan gradually, what we already have been doing. Within 10 years, difference between India and Pak will become so big that Pak will stop making a difference to India.
Open hostilities with India will ensure that terrorists become a liability for Pakistan. Salahuddin's statement too confirms that something is cooking. Pakistan under Imran Khan is probably now more serious about its future and going to pull out from Kashmir quagmire.
Accordingly India's population in 2017 is estimated to be 1.3 billion ....even 25% as you say makes over 300 million people in a state of abject poverty.
This is more than the population of Nigeria (190 million) , it even beat the USA population of 300 million plus.
I can guarantee that these people would like to get out of poverty and find these areas a threat. They would rather have peace with everyone - in fact most poor people across the world want the same.
Unfortunately a few peoples egos always screw the majority of populations across the world.
In regards to Kashmir, despite the history - if you will 'man up' you know no excuses will count.. The people of Kashmir wanted to join Pakistan at independence!
People need to he brave to face this reality. .and hence move forward to a peace full world that would make both Pakistan and India very rich. Kashmir has to be resolved - let the kashmiri people decide?
Or keep deluding yourself and let India implode???
India's exteremely poor population is 3.5% since February 2019, not anywhere near 25%.
And India's military/research spending is nuts when compared to India's other spendings. If India shelves its space program (worth $1.9 billion) today, it won't make any difference. No one will be pulled out of poverty. But it will hurt India's connectivity projects.
India's annual budget exceeds $700 billions will soon exceed $1 trillion. AFAIK, its Pakistan who spends so aggressively on defense even in times of economic crisis.
Indians can be trolled for supa powa dreams. But national power is a product of narional money/economy which is product of national population and income. India's population & maintained high per capita GDP growth for last 28 years, will make it emerge it as great power as US/USSR/PRC. Someone likes it or not.
