Do you realize the missile was for the demonstration purposes ??.... K-15 led the way for dev K-4 which has the range of 3500KM and the next missile being developed has the rant of 6-8k with MIRV...
I sort of realize that but not the way you phrased it.
Demonstration purposes? Fine! Except that then the
Arihant is a demonstration sub until fitted with the K-4
Then the test of that 3,5000 km successor happened
supposedly reaching 3 000 km and another from the
Arihant got done but only over the same 700km range
possibly due to testing implementation and no later one
took place as we wait for a new launch these days.
So
it was almost a good time for Arihant to suffer damage
and be unavailable / immobilized is the positive point here?
Well good, you have a luxury test bed and with test missiles
and an upcoming real missile ... none of which work ATM.
I wouldn't gloat about it though.
In good meaning kidding, I liked your typo :
the next missile being developed has the rant of 6-8k with MIRV...
On that one, I think you went full modest as I believe India able to muster ...
the rant of 6-8m with Manic Indians Raving Violently
and 10 times as much, over a 100 million with a bit of effort from the media.
Still, my point remains that a 700km ranged SSBN is not tactically sound.
To hit Beijing, the sub has to be high in the Yellow Sea, a crowded zone;
to hit Moscow, forget the Black Sea, just dock in Latvia. Western capitals
are a better fit and I noted that London & Washington, less than 200 kliks
from open water, are easy targets and you wonder why they mistrust you.
All of the important Australian cities are a go even Canberra but forget say
Canada and strangely enough, forget Islamabad. The easiest might be Rome.
But you don't need a sub for that, take the
subway : just ask for the Metro.
*
Sorry for the jostling, man; have a great day still, Tay.
* I forgot Amsterdam and Rabat and quite a few others
but who in their right mind would attack Morocco or the
Dutch with nukes, they're such nice places and people.