Pakistan building nuclear weapons storage unit deep in the mountains

[BATMAN]

secret is out guys.......

its back to storing them in Gujrat again

Are you sure it was not Gujranwala?

 

[El Sidd]

Are you sure it was not Gujranwala?

No man. It's Gujrat in India.

We have Pakistani beggars there each armed with a nuke

 

[BATMAN]

Pakistan building nuclear weapons storage unit deep in the mountains

The facility in Punjab province consists of 3 tunnels, interconnected under the mountain with each other; can store 12-24 nuclear weapons.

Pakistan is amassing nuclear weapons and building storage facilities for them deep in the mountains to protect them from India’s first strike (different from first use). ThePrint exposes yet another tunnelled nuclear storage project that Pakistan is clandestinely building in the mountains on the western side of Thamewali in its Punjab province.

The geographical location of the new facility is 32°46’24″N and 71°44’39”E. It is 750 km from New Delhi, 1,500 km from Mumbai, 2,350 km from Chennai and 3,150km from Port Blair.

The new facility consists of three tunnels, probably interconnected under the mountain with each other. Construction of the facility started somewhere before 2009 and was still continuing as of December 2016.

The pace of construction indicates that possibly a small group of specialised engineers and construction staff has been working on this project permanently. The slow speed is suggestive of construction under the aegis of Frontier Works Organisation or FWO of the Pakistan Army.

It has an outer security fence with two entrances. There is also an administrative area larger than most tunnelled facilities seen in Pakistan. The outer fence is much larger than the tunnelled area indicating possible future expansion towards the north.

The hot area comprises three tunnels.

The tunnel entrances (10 m in height and 10 m in width) are deeply cut into the mountains. They are separated from each other by a distance of 450-750 metres. They are connected by large roads of approximately 10 to 20 metres in width.

The roads widen at corners for obvious reasons of providing enough turning space for large tractor erector launchers (TELs) hidden inside these tunnels.

These three entrances possibly connect with each other inside the mountain to form a long tunnel of approximately 1.2 km. The excavated earth piles also suggest similar size of tunnel inside the mountain.

Security of the area

The area is secured with a wire fence all around. The facility has been provided with two entrances.

The main entrance is more than 3 m high solid gate. The road approach to this main entrance has four barricades before the gate and two after. These barricades would make a direct vehicular hit on the gate very difficult.

There are layered fencing around the hot area and administrative areas, which are not very clearly visible due to poor temporal resolution available in open source satellite imagery.

There is no proper air defence (AD) cover afforded to the facility although indications of some trials by short range AD have been observed.

Administrative area

The administrative area consists of a large number of buildings mainly for parking of vehicles. It also has a mosque located centrally, which was constructed before the rest of the buildings.

Some of the buildings look like high-bay garages meant for maintenance of vehicles and missiles. There six special garages possibly for holding TELs during high alert status. There are another six garages, which may hold air defence systems in future.

There are six turning areas, which could be used for turning direction of TELs. These could also be used as launch pads if properly marked and registered. One of the turning areas is a huge circular area of almost 80 m diameter.

Space for between 12 to 24 nuclear weapons
The size of this facility inside the mountain suggests that it can hold at least 12 to 24 nuclear weapons complete with TELs. India needs to monitor this site very frequently. It needs to be added to the list of own ‘Priority-I’ targets.

The fact that the project has received a no-objection certificate despite its location being earthquake-prone, according to a Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission study, is very surprising.

Col Vinayak Bhat (retd) is a Military Intelligence veteran of the Indian Army with vast experience of satellite imagery analysis. He has worked as Chinese interpreter and is a specialist on PLA and Pakistan’s Armed Forces. He tweets @rajfortyseven

what's wrong in keeping them safe?

 

[Taimoor Khan]

Road infrastructure is currently inaccessible for such TEL to be transported Far North western areas and PA/ FCNA is currently involved in capacity building existing brigade in Chitral to fight insurgents crossing over mountains, the valley has been one of the few in northern areas where Anti state elements couldn't reach their sphere of incfluence particularly because chitral scouts and Frontier corp were actively anticipating from potential takeover like That of Swat or district dir.
Anyways fast forward today , lowari tunnel has been completed after decades and I find roads from dir towards midlands in better state than some roads of Ravapindi.
A beautiful highway has been constructed in chitral town quite recently and is being linked from lowari tunnel end towards the town all the way to upper chitral the only supposed edge where you could build facilities to store nuclear weapons .
Quite senior people working in the corridors of power last year were saying there are plans to expand The nuclear arsenal in those areas in chitral.
The CPEC link (hindukush highway) provides an alternate towards gilgit .. if you get cut off from one side you have a Good alternate.
The best way to ensure safety of our nuclear assets is to diversify their presence along the country.
So If you ask me make missile silos inside the mountains , that way you don't have to get in the mess of TEL's.
On-land nuclear delivery methods have to be diversified

Northern areas are ideal for permenant and 24×7 silo based nuclear missile lunching facilities. That is if and when we decide to have ICBMs in our inventory. If will be however an engineering marvel to cut a missile base through those huge mountains at the elevation of 6 to 7 thousands meters elevation from sea level. But the advantages will be great. Less fuel required for missile to break free and reduced critical boost time where missile might be vulnerable to enemy action. Hostile terrain will automatically provide a natural fortress for any ground enemy action.

 

[ashok321]

what's wrong in keeping them safe?

Nothing wrong.

 

[Yaseen1]

many of such sites are fake and are intentionally made to disguise and fool enemy

 

[Hakikat ve Hikmet]

How can we take this country seriously when it thinks that we are sending over spy pigeons...

And, balloons, camels, dogs, cows, cats and what not??1?! And, they send an Army of Apes to return the favor....

what's wrong in keeping them safe?

Arkadashim, let me cite a personal experience. It was the day after 9/11, and I was driving home while listening to a radio talk show discussion over that incident. Listeners were also participating. Some folk from Colorado hooked up and his comment was something like this - we need to tell Pak that we're very worried and feel uneasy about their nukes, and we need to do something about it!!! The US sources, as per media reports, later found that Pak moves her strategic warheads through busy highways in commercial vehicles!!!! I think this much must have been enough for the 100% of the Ehl-i Dunya....

 

[BATMAN]

And, balloons, camels, dogs, cows, cats and what not??1?! And, they send an Army of Apes to return the favor....


Arkadashim, let me cite a personal experience. It was the day after 9/11, and I was driving home while listening to a radio talk show discussion over that incident. Listeners were also participating. Some folk from Colorado hooked up and his comment was something like this - we need to tell Pak that we're very worried and feel uneasy about their nukes, and we need to do something about it!!! The US sources, as per media reports, later found that Pak moves her strategic warheads through busy highways in commercial vehicles!!!! I think this much must have been enough for the 100% of the Ehl-i Dunya....

Brother... its all about Pakistan. If there were no nukes, they would have leveled Pakistan long ago.
When Pakistan was made, it was some agricultural land and few small towns and one city.
All industry was in regions which become India, all money and resources remained there.
People who cross over to new country, they started all over again from scratch.
During its course of life, Pakistan was left to face many challenges, which involve wars, foreign agencies disturbances, etc. This has made us a resilient nation, especially our army have grown out to be a finest institution and InshAllah they will lead us to success.

 

[Daghalodi]

Pakistan building nuclear weapons storage unit deep in the mountains

The facility in Punjab province consists of 3 tunnels, interconnected under the mountain with each other; can store 12-24 nuclear weapons.

Pakistan is amassing nuclear weapons and building storage facilities for them deep in the mountains to protect them from India’s first strike (different from first use). ThePrint exposes yet another tunnelled nuclear storage project that Pakistan is clandestinely building in the mountains on the western side of Thamewali in its Punjab province.

The geographical location of the new facility is 32°46’24″N and 71°44’39”E. It is 750 km from New Delhi, 1,500 km from Mumbai, 2,350 km from Chennai and 3,150km from Port Blair.

The new facility consists of three tunnels, probably interconnected under the mountain with each other. Construction of the facility started somewhere before 2009 and was still continuing as of December 2016.

The pace of construction indicates that possibly a small group of specialised engineers and construction staff has been working on this project permanently. The slow speed is suggestive of construction under the aegis of Frontier Works Organisation or FWO of the Pakistan Army.

It has an outer security fence with two entrances. There is also an administrative area larger than most tunnelled facilities seen in Pakistan. The outer fence is much larger than the tunnelled area indicating possible future expansion towards the north.

The hot area comprises three tunnels.

The tunnel entrances (10 m in height and 10 m in width) are deeply cut into the mountains. They are separated from each other by a distance of 450-750 metres. They are connected by large roads of approximately 10 to 20 metres in width.

The roads widen at corners for obvious reasons of providing enough turning space for large tractor erector launchers (TELs) hidden inside these tunnels.

These three entrances possibly connect with each other inside the mountain to form a long tunnel of approximately 1.2 km. The excavated earth piles also suggest similar size of tunnel inside the mountain.

Security of the area

The area is secured with a wire fence all around. The facility has been provided with two entrances.

The main entrance is more than 3 m high solid gate. The road approach to this main entrance has four barricades before the gate and two after. These barricades would make a direct vehicular hit on the gate very difficult.

There are layered fencing around the hot area and administrative areas, which are not very clearly visible due to poor temporal resolution available in open source satellite imagery.

There is no proper air defence (AD) cover afforded to the facility although indications of some trials by short range AD have been observed.

Administrative area

The administrative area consists of a large number of buildings mainly for parking of vehicles. It also has a mosque located centrally, which was constructed before the rest of the buildings.

Some of the buildings look like high-bay garages meant for maintenance of vehicles and missiles. There six special garages possibly for holding TELs during high alert status. There are another six garages, which may hold air defence systems in future.

There are six turning areas, which could be used for turning direction of TELs. These could also be used as launch pads if properly marked and registered. One of the turning areas is a huge circular area of almost 80 m diameter.

Space for between 12 to 24 nuclear weapons
The size of this facility inside the mountain suggests that it can hold at least 12 to 24 nuclear weapons complete with TELs. India needs to monitor this site very frequently. It needs to be added to the list of own ‘Priority-I’ targets.

The fact that the project has received a no-objection certificate despite its location being earthquake-prone, according to a Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission study, is very surprising.

Col Vinayak Bhat (retd) is a Military Intelligence veteran of the Indian Army with vast experience of satellite imagery analysis. He has worked as Chinese interpreter and is a specialist on PLA and Pakistan’s Armed Forces. He tweets @rajfortyseven

 

[sparten]

Dear God. The location of the Missile Groups is not classified. They need to, I dunno, pick up a phone directory and and see where they are based. Then look at GoogleEarth images.

You cannot effectively hide the location of thousands of men (and these days women) and their families. No one bothers.

 

[ashok321]

Why Pakistan is building underground tunnels close to Indian border

Pakistan is reportedly building underground tunnels to store a stock of 140 nuclear weapons. The underground tunnels are being dug reportedly in Mianwali, which is located 350-km from Amritsar and 750-km from New Delhi.

According to a report on Wion, the area where the tunnel is built comprises three interconnected tunnels, each 10 metres in height and 10 metres in width. The retired Indian Army officer also stated in the report that the tunnels are further linked by wide roads, broad at the corners to facilitate the movement of transporter erector launchers from where missiles are filed. All the tunnels have separate entry and exit gates. Available intelligence suggests that each tunnel can store anything between 12 and 24 nuclear weapons.



Read more at: https://www.oneindia.com/internatio...derground-tunnels-near-india-bor-2560875.html

 

[Asian.Century]

Wohoo! Pakistan has some stored in Afghanistan too! Some given to Iran!

 

[axisofevil]

India should be doing the same secretly if it hasn't already

 

[Fledgingwings]

Damn ! now just wait for another US navy seal team show off.we,re doomed