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Missile Defence : Erecting An Iron Dome Over India

Prospect of Killing a ballistic missile at boost stage is worrying ...thats actually best way to hit a ballistic missile when it slowest and cannot manauver....and only way that actually can work.....

Thus any missile launches from pak need to be pushed away from border....that may necassitate a further enhanced range shaheen series missile...

Ghauri and short range ballustic missiles need to be phased out and shaheen 1 2 3 need to be pressed in to service in bigger numbers....

Cruise missiles are vulnerable to an extent only...

Even a person with ak 47 can shoot down a subsonic cm if he sees one....
Tree top cm will comtine to have a great survival and actually should be used to neutralise this system

Source: Missile Defence : Erecting An Iron Dome Over India | Page 4
Well given the size and capability of Pakistani nuclear deterrence the long term picture would be to have a conventional or nuclear submarine carrying warheads either by cruise missiles or ballistic missiles. This is the most cost effective method against India in the long term. Like wise, this is exactly what the Indians are doing. You don't see Indians building silos hence they are going to put strategic level weapons with warhead on land for long. Also again given Pakistans size, Pakistan should not invest in targets for Indian nukes on land. The sea and Indian ocean specifically is the best place to hide strategic nukes.
As for the article, this is paid journalism at its best. The S-400 is no god send. I doubt the purchase of the system or at the very least in large supplies. I expect if they do purchase the system, it would have been integrated with national air defence grid.
I just don't see this sale happening. Unless i'm missing something on the political side.
Excerpts from the 1st and 2nd page:

[...] Russian choices have been guided by a consistent Western tactical air defense plan that has been centered on the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. Delays in the JSF program have now given Russia more than 20 years to prepare for its initial operational capability date. [...]

The asymmetric dimension to future Russian air warfare programs entails the development of counter very-low-observable (CVLO) radar technologies and long-range, high-speed surface-to-air missile (SAM) designs, complemented by a new generation of short-range point defense weapons intended to destroy incoming guided weapons, especially anti-radiation missiles, cruise missiles and guided bombs. All systems are built for high mobility, typically with 5-min. “shoot and scoot” times to permit “scooting” inside of the targeting and engagement cycles of most guided munitions.

The focus in Russian CVLO radar has been in the 1-meter VHF band. Stealth shaping in fighters is largely ineffective in VHF because components such as stabilizers and wingtips have dimensions close to the radar wavelength. Radar-absorbent treatments developed for S-band and above are ineffective in VHF due to both electrical behavior and thickness.

The flagship product is the NNIIRT/Almaz-Antey 55Zh6M Nebo M 3-D radar system, of which 100 were recently ordered to re-equip Russian air defense forces. The Nebo M is uniquely a “multi-band” design, comprising three radars and a central data fusion and command post module, all carried on separate high-mobility 8 x 8 24-ton vehicles.

The RLM-M VHF-band, RLM-D L-band and RLM-S C/X-band radars all feed tracking data to the command van’s data fusion system—which resembles the U.S. Navy’s Cooperative Engagement Capability system—using high-speed narrow-beam digital data links in the microwave band. All radars appear to be solid-state active, electronically scanned array (AESA) designs. The intent of the Nebo M design is for the RLM-M to detect stealth targets, and cue the RLM-D and -S components to produce exact tracking data, bypassing the initial acquisition problems otherwise seen in mid/upper-band radars with VLO targets. Range performance has not been disclosed but the RLM-M is expected to better the earlier Nebo- SVU by at least 40%.

The earlier NNIIRT 1L119E Nebo-SVU VHF AESA does not appear to have been built in large numbers, and used a less mobile semi-trailer configuration. The Nebo-SVU was credited with space-time adaptive processing technology similar to that or the Northrop Grumman E-2D Hawkeye, and in 2002 NNIIRT’s Igor Krylov said “We can see the stealth [F-117A] as clearly as any other plane”.

[...] The push into CVLO radar is paralleled by investment in highly mobile long-range SAM designs with high speed and short flight times. The intent is twofold—to deny airspace to standoff and penetrating intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance and electronic attack platforms, while permitting SAMs to close with stealth targets before they can retreat from tracking range.

Russia’s future integrated air defense system will be constructed around the S-400 Triumf (SA-21 “Growler”) strategic SAM, and the S-500 Triumfator M or SA-X-NN SAM and missile defense system. The S-400 is now deployed with air defense regiments at Dubrovka, Elektrostal and Vladivostok.
Perhaps as i've said, the Indians are interested in anti stealth radar and want to know when a B-2 is flying over Indian air space.
 
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Well given the size and capability of Pakistani nuclear deterrence the long term picture would be to have a conventional or nuclear submarine carrying warheads either by cruise missiles or ballistic missiles. This is the most cost effective method against India in the long term. Like wise, this is exactly what the Indians are doing. You don't see Indians building silos hence they are going to put strategic level weapons with warhead on land for long. Also again given Pakistans size, Pakistan should not invest in targets for Indian nukes on land. The sea and Indian ocean specifically is the best place to hide strategic nukes.


I think the latest chinese pk submarine deal is exactly for this purpose ... to put long range nuke tipped cruise missiles in extremely quiet aip diesal electric submarines
 

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