Indian Strategic Forces: Nuclear and Missile Facilities

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Construction of the BrahMos missile storage complex began in the latter half of 2017, during the tenure of Dhowan’s successor Admiral Sunil Lamba and was completed by mid-2020, under Lamba’s successor Admiral Karambir Singh. The complex consists of three linear magazines of eight storage bays each, totalling 24 bays. At the bare minimum, this complex can store no less than 24 missiles at any given time.

The storage complex also has an integration and storage building adjacent to it. It is situated in Dharampur village of Porbandar, almost 8km from INS Sardar Patel.

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If we assume the stored missiles to have the standard 300km range, a launch from waters near Pakistan’s maritime boundaries could easily take out Karachi, Hyderabad, and other important garrisons in Sindh. Vital installations include oil terminals in Sindh, three bases in Pakistan Air Force’s Southern Air Command (Masroor, Faisal and Bholari), naval dockyards and bases, and the headquarters of the Pakistan Army’s 5 Corps.

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If the Indian Navy launches extended range BrahMos missiles from the same waters off Gujarat, these could also target sensitive installations in Balochistan, thus increasing the targeting canvas for Western Naval Command.

 

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IAF has deployed its second Serial production "MRSAM" ( the Israeli Barak 8 ) Battery to Bhuj AFS,

Earlier IAF had deployed its prototype Barak 8 battery to Sri Nagar AFS which we covered before & in 2021 the first serial production battery was inducted & deployed at Jaisalmer.

 

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The Indian Army has operationalized IAI SkyCapture Gun Control Systems that it had received in Early 2021.
One the IA's Air Defence Regiments deployed at Vadodara , we see a wide variety of Air Def systems present including the IAI Sky Capture.

 

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INS VARSHA NAVAL BASE: A BRIEF OVERVIEW
The base will become the home of India’s fleet of nuclear-powered ballistic missile and attack submarines, and will be the most strategically important naval base in the country. It is located in Rambili, a village in Andhra Pradesh,

Jul 19, 2022

 

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#IMINT Indian Army has replaced the old 551 Smerch Regiment infrastructure at Ambala Cantt with a new compound. Reasons for this include moving out from the decades old decaying buildings and for accommodating additional new Super Stallion 10x10 Missile resupply trucks.

 

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#IMINT In an effort to both utilize the limited space on its already congested airbases as well as to increase the maintenance capacity with a growing fleet, the IAF has been setting up large hangars across several of its bases mainly in the North eastern sector bordering China.

 

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#IMINT ,The Indian Army operates 2~3 Samyukta EW System Regiments, all of which are currently based along the Pakistani border. A Samyukta EW system Regiment compromising of 150+ vehicles was geolocated to Indian Army's Bathinda Garrison.

 

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In 2015, the Indian Navy commissioned a new naval base INS Sardar Patel in Porbandar, Gujarat, to strengthen the security of the frontline maritime state. During its launch ceremony, the then Chief of Naval Staff (CNS) Admiral Robin K. Dhowan outlined that the base would also provide operational support to naval assets deployed in the region, apart from logistics facilities.

INS Sardar Patel may be serving as a logistics support facility for Western Naval Command. But, an analysis of open-source satellite imagery shared by observers at PAK-IMINT suggests that the base may also be managing a storage depot for BrahMos missiles.

Construction of the BrahMos missile storage complex began in the latter half of 2017, during the tenure of Dhowan’s successor Admiral Sunil Lamba and was completed by mid-2020, under Lamba’s successor Admiral Karambir Singh. The complex consists of three linear magazines of eight storage bays each, totalling 24 bays. At the bare minimum, this complex can store no less than 24 missiles at any given time.

The storage complex also has an integration and storage building adjacent to it. It is situated in Dharampur village of Porbandar, almost 8km from INS Sardar Patel.

If we assume the stored missiles to have the standard 300km range, a launch from waters near Pakistan’s maritime boundaries could easily take out Karachi, Hyderabad, and other important garrisons in Sindh. Vital installations include oil terminals in Sindh, three bases in Pakistan Air Force’s Southern Air Command (Masroor, Faisal and Bholari), naval dockyards and bases, and the headquarters of the Pakistan Army’s 5 Corps.

Image Source: PAK-IMINT​

 

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Aug 13, 2022

Using IMINT to take a look at IAF's 2nd S400 Battery delivered to Adampur AFS that was not operational till at least May 2022 , coinciding with news reports that the system was operationalized only in June 2022.
Various components including suspected TELs were also visible.

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The Indian Air Force has deployed its first squadron of the Russian S400 air defense system in Punjab. The deployment faced delays because of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, even as the first squadron was delivered to India in late 2021.

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India already developing hypersonic cruise missile range UpTo approx 1000 km

 

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A storage facility for Agni nuclear-armed missile launchers, built by Indian Strategic Forces Command, located 300 kilometres away from the Pakistani border, in a mountainside facing the east (away from Pakistan) near Morki In Rajasthan, India. Coordinates: 27.950437° 75.780002°

 

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A newly-constructed Indian military garrison that supports a missile regiment of the Indian Strategic Forces Command, near Nasirabad in Rajasthan.