I don’t know how many warheads the Indians are able to put on one of these yet, but I would have thought there need to be a lot of missiles and warheads aimed at China to deter them.

Although I am ignorant as to the details (do they still think it possible to survive a nuclear attack because of the size of their population?).

I am assuming you are talking of china. I don’t think that cold war philosophy is still in place. most unlikely that loss of even one or two high value cities would be acceptable to the chinese.

this version has a single warhead but MIRV tech exists (India has time and again demonstrated multiple sat launch and holds the record for largest # of sats launched in one mission — 10) but needs to be tested and validated. that’s the next thing on the cards.

What India really require is a good wheeled TEL. Without proper TEL, it is going to be a nightmare in terms of deployment. China and Pakistan are far ahead in terms of their mobile systems. India have not yet even started acquiring any decent TEL.

you are extrapolating others’ situation to India. all of India’s strategic missiles are rail mobile, including today’s agni-5.

road based TEL made sense for countries with vast wildernesses like russia, US or china.

I want to borrow his time muchen.

giant moon AND DSI ? is it a death star in disguise ??? 😮

excellent thread. the JF-17 is clearly superior to the F-22, as proven by this youtube video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ii6sU8-G8y8

bottomline : one shouldn’t insult the JF-17 by comparing it with clearly inferior aircraft like the Gripen.

wasn’t EADS hired to redesign LCA’s airframe?

no.

quad, stop making up stories as you go along. :rolleyes:

a) there are no cattle lifters ‘on both sides’. cattle lifters from BD smuggle cattle into BD with full protection from BDR because there is a high demand during bakr id that they can’t fulfill legally.

b) smuggling, similar. unless you think BD produces something which has such demand in India to justify smuggling. (hint : there isn’t. look at the balance of trade)

c) those ‘atrocities’ by BSF are attempts to control rampant illegal cross border movements. anyone involved in illegal border crossings/smuggling whether Indian or BDesi stand the risk of getting shot at if they do not cooperate with the BSF. this is a border that has seen terrorists sneaking into India and causing major damages.

d) I do not need ‘tehelka’ to tell me what happens there, I have been to those places and have friends who live in the border districts (of both countries). tehelka is BS’ing, to put it lightly.

Think we need to wait a bit longer to have it confirmed from another source. How credible is that idrw.org site ?

a little less than strategypage. unless they are copy pasting someone else’s article.

@ Vnomad.

you are not helping.