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If that does not work, and the horse/mule is just hell bent on dehydrating (suicidal horse/mule, dont believe me well mr. you just go ask the UN peacekeepers):

Combine 1 teaspoon salt with 2 tablespoons of applesauce. Put it in a syringe or de-worming tube and shoot it in the mouth. The salt should stimulate thirst.

Or

Try getting 1 tablespoon of corn syrup into the mouth. It will coat the tongue and compel the horse/mule to drink.

Oh now you can take over the replies to “savion”. 😀

Its a two stage missile, does the stage seperation present a problem in short range engagements?

Not really, its not like a ballistic missile with one stage falling off & the like AFAIK, its a dual pulse motor. The second motor is to avoid the problem of running on earlier energy & using it up – the target does a few maneuvers and your missile runs out of gas. So DRDL chose this path. Interestingly enough, even the Akash has the same logic in mind, it uses a ramjet & the range quoted is not ballistic/max range per se, but the range at which it can still maneuver under an active propulsion. So they decided to keep that same thing in mind & go for another approach to get the same desired result.

It will have a minimum range of around a km or so. The next layer will be of the SRSAM where DRDL (DRDO) is planning to use jet vanes (as on the AAD) but smaller ones out of new materials given the size of the missile.

There was talk that they will make the missile compatible with the Mk-41 launcher, what modifications are required to do so (make the missile compatible with other launchers)? Will that require consulting from US firms?

TBH, I never bothered to ask about it. What I do know however, is that cross compatability would help Israel as and when it deploys these systems. I would presume they would have to have some amount of OEM license/help in knowing the standard interfaces for the Mk41 & making the Barak compatible. Wonder which particular firm owns the right to the Mk41 or whether it is an industry standard unit or owned by the USG as its IP.