Pulsar
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Strange that you should put forth such silly arguments.The idea of being immune is utter idiocy and weird as well.
There is no immunity when the average flight time between the two nations is 4-6 minutes.
All the AAD offers is some protection for the eastern most cities.
There was a reason that despite various ABM measures such as the PATRIOT and otherwise.. the idea of IRBMs in any country makes people nervous. Smell the reality, you live under the very high potential of being BBQd to nothing.. regardless of how many PAADs you make.
Firstly, during the run-up to a conflict, all systems would be in place including AWACs. Indication for war would be available at least a month in advance like enemy movement of troops to concentration areas, forward deployment of artillery and missile batteries, aircraft being weaponized and moved to particular air bases, increase in signal traffic, establishment of forward logistic bases etc. Similarly, Indian troops and formations would start deploying too including air defence systems well in advance.
Secondly, all air defence systems are computerized and thus can react within seconds of an enemy missile lifting off anywhere from within Pakistan. This would be picked up by AWACS and real time satellite imagery. ETOT for a missile to hit a close-proximity VA (vulnerable area) within India would be around 5-6 minutes, enough time to identify, acquire and take counter action, thus destroying the missile within 2-3 minutes of lift off. This would probably be over Pak territory itself!
So your argument that 'the idea of being immune to a missile attack from Pakistan is utter idiocy and weird', is laughable. You need to know your beans before making such sweeping statements.
However, I don't say that a Theater Air Defence system is 100% foolproof. A saturated missile attack could result in a few missiles getting through and hitting their targets. But this would require enormous resources - about 1 missile hitting target for every 10 fired. Seeing the number of targets in India, you'd run out of missiles before affecting unacceptable damage.