amardeep mishra
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Hi dear Shaheen Missile!36 inch Rim and great ground clearance . all wheel drive with half of the axles being steerable. On par with Russian or Chinese TELs. Truely all terrain capable not just Highway or Motorway capable like Indian TELs
There is no doubt that pakistani strategic missiles are more off road capable vis-a-vis their indian counterparts by virtue of using either chinese(which are in turn copies of soviet TELs:sold to them after collapse of USSR by ukraine) or ukrainian(ex-soviet) TELs.But calling a chinese or ex soviet designed TEL as pakistani is sheer intellectual dishonesty and one must refrain from doing it.
Indian ones on other hand rely on either long tata/tatra/volvo trucks or rail carriages(as has been demonstrated a lot of times). Quite recently India has also demonstrated cannister firing of A-5,which means while indian ICBMs or IRBMs might not be as road mobile as lets say pakistani strategic missiles,but they sure can be launched in much smaller time window. For instance according to some estimates,the launch prep time for A-5 is of the order of just 5-8mins whereas for older Agnis and even all of your shaheens itz somewhere between 30-40mins.
Besides you are not taking into account the fact that all of agnis can be fired off rail carriages and indian railways network(4th largest in the world) being what it is--it will make the job of an adversary extremely difficult to find that particular train and destroy it.
In case you're in doubt,you can always search google and ask more informed people like @The Deterrent for unbiased comments.
PS- the only thing I wish we could have done better was choice of better TELs.We could have simply delegated the task of designing entire TEL to tata. Interestingly the canisterized firing system of A-5 was designed by VRDE and L&T(india's $34bn engineering conglomerate with expertise in power engineering and construction).
This is neither an indian TEL nor cannister.This pic is of PLA ,probably 2nd arty corp--custodian of their nuclear arsenal.We use Tatra TELAR & rail mobile launchers..
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