Taimoor Khan
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Pakistan is still working on torpedo based SLCM capability. There are three reasons
1.
Agosta 90/90B supports two kind of torpedos.
Even chinese torpedo based SLCM with 6 meter in length have meager 128 KM of range--The submarine based SLCM have much powerful booster
- ECAN L5 Mod 3: 4.320 m and 935 kg
- ECAN F17 Mod 2: 6.0m and 1,410 kg
--Popeye ALCM without booster of length 6.25 meter,diameter 533 mm have range of 325 KM
Popeye submarine torpedo launched SLCM in INS Rahab/Dolphin class II SSK have range of 1000+KM but its dimensions are almost 8-9+ meter in length and uses 650 mm heavy torpedo tubes--That's about 10 % more radii & 2+ meter length carrying about 1.5 times more volume than 6.25 meter length 533 Torpedo launched SLCM.
2. Babur Solid booster have low specific impulse. It uses jet vanes & lacks TVC which is serious problem given pakistan all solid stage missiles uses Long March 1/FG36 type engines which all based on jet vanes. US, Russia, China, India have experience of working on boosters for 6 to 4 decades! Pakistan is newbie in booster technology! It have no engine with flex nozzle TVC--- The specific impulse of Shaheen engines are of 1960-70 type missiles !
3 Babur GLCM was designed, built and tested in China--Pak havent ever undergone any wind tunnel test of its missiles and drones- Infact, Pakistan starts with semi finished product supplied by china and south africa(Denel dynamic provided Raad)- Babur uses majority chinese components(turbojet, inertial navigation, flight control, electronics, TERCOM altimeter) minus fuselage which is made by NESCOM with the jigs, lathes and other tools supplied by china
Pakistan simply lacks the capability to design,windtunnel & manufacture a cruise missile on its own!
Pakistan decided to choose Denel supplied Ra'ad & never attempted to alter Babur GLCM into Babur ALCM.
3. China also lacks any torpedo based SLCM of range > 128 km-They can certainly produce torpedo launched long range SLCM but Chinese are more focused on supersonic solid fuel/dual pulse short range VLS launched SLCM & long range SLBM.
They have SSBM,SSN for nuclear triad so they prefer their SSK for conventional attack with short range missiles!
=>But China will certainly help Pakistan redesign/modify Babur SLCM as part of eight S-20 purchases!
=> Pak's chinese procured S-20 with 533 diameter and 6-6.5 meter length tubes can at max fit a 300-400 Km SLCM!
Pakistan is still working on torpedo based SLCM capability. There are three reasons
1.
Agosta 90/90B supports two kind of torpedos.
Even chinese torpedo based SLCM with 6 meter in length have meager 128 KM of range--The submarine based SLCM have much powerful booster
- ECAN L5 Mod 3: 4.320 m and 935 kg
- ECAN F17 Mod 2: 6.0m and 1,410 kg
--Popeye ALCM without booster of length 6.25 meter,diameter 533 mm have range of 325 KM
Popeye submarine torpedo launched SLCM in INS Rahab/Dolphin class II SSK have range of 1000+KM but its dimensions are almost 8-9+ meter in length and uses 650 mm heavy torpedo tubes--That's about 10 % more radii & 2+ meter length carrying about 1.5 times more volume than 6.25 meter length 533 Torpedo launched SLCM.
2. Babur Solid booster have low specific impulse. It uses jet vanes & lacks TVC which is serious problem given pakistan all solid stage missiles uses Long March 1/FG36 type engines which all based on jet vanes. US, Russia, China, India have experience of working on boosters for 6 to 4 decades! Pakistan is newbie in booster technology! It have no engine with flex nozzle TVC--- The specific impulse of Shaheen engines are of 1960-70 type missiles !
3 Babur GLCM was designed, built and tested in China--Pak havent ever undergone any wind tunnel test of its missiles and drones- Infact, Pakistan starts with semi finished product supplied by china and south africa(Denel dynamic provided Raad)- Babur uses majority chinese components(turbojet, inertial navigation, flight control, electronics, TERCOM altimeter) minus fuselage which is made by NESCOM with the jigs, lathes and other tools supplied by china
Pakistan simply lacks the capability to design,windtunnel & manufacture a cruise missile on its own!
Pakistan decided to choose Denel supplied Ra'ad & never attempted to alter Babur GLCM into Babur ALCM.
3. China also lacks any torpedo based SLCM of range > 128 km-They can certainly produce torpedo launched long range SLCM but Chinese are more focused on supersonic solid fuel/dual pulse short range VLS launched SLCM & long range SLBM.
They have SSBM,SSN for nuclear triad so they prefer their SSK for conventional attack with short range missiles!
=>But China will certainly help Pakistan redesign/modify Babur SLCM as part of eight S-20 purchases!
=> Pak's chinese procured S-20 with 533 diameter and 6-6.5 meter length tubes can at max fit a 300-400 Km SLCM!
If we can build the 14000 Ton of outer and inner sheild for the particle collider at CERN, you think we cant make some random wind tunnels?
Visit to Cern: Pakistan proud of its scientists, says Nawaz - The Express Tribune
"He visited the CMS (Compact Muon S) – the largest particle collider in the world that was part of the 27 km long Large Hadron Collider (LHC) – and witnessed the huge 14,000 tons heavy outer and inner shields built by the Heavy Mechanical Complex Taxila."
