No it cannot, you have to design a totally new missile to fit the warhead for a tactical nuke. You are making it sound too easy, even designing an accurate rocket that is carried on the Smerch requires years of experience and testing. Its not that easy as you are making it sound
I am not talking about developing delevery systems. Rocket motors do need experience no doubt about that, but warhead systems interoperability is true, IGMDP delivery methods employ common systems, Warheads conventional or nuclear have standard interoperability in SFC ballistic systems for SRBM. I am sorry but I cannot comment more on that on a public forum, I hope you understand the reason
8 minutes? Are you freakin kidding me, if that was true your country would have been the most sanctioned country in the world. India, like Pakistan keeps the missiles in separate parts away from each other unlike Russia or the US whom keep their missiles ready round the clock. It will take you definitely more than 8 minutes to assemble the nukes, you can mark my words for that. The components of the warheads are kept away from each other, this is why the Americans and the the rest of the world are relatively comfortable with us having nukes.
operationally deployed Prithvi II can be fired in the exact time I specified, from central command in SFC it takes 8 mins for the missile to fire, including target coordinate verification and active deployment of warhead, conventional or otherwise and initiation of launch sequence. You will not find a single shred of evidence about this on the web. Question is are there oprationally deployed SRBM, official answer is NO. rest you can figure out.
If the country is at the risk of getting cut up in two pieces, you can be sure that PA will fire the tactical nuke to send of the warning that BACK OFF or we are going to take it to the next level. It will be upto India if it wants to take it to the next level, but you can be sure that the entire Subcontinent will get fried up in the exchange.
Its not that easy to move up an entire division, as soon as you start mobilizing your Armour the activity will not go unnoticed. Indian Major Armour Formations are heavily monitored by PA and same goes with IA monitoring PA's Armour Formations, with all the advances in technologies IA beating PA to the border is simply not possible. IA will not just get up one day and say "Hey we are going to mobilize and declare war", for IA to effectively mobilize some external event needs to take place. You can be sure that if that external event is serious, PA will start heavily monitoring the border.
I am pretty sure that IBG's wont be big chunky 200 vehicle armored thrusts into pak as assumed in this forum by experts. It would be in my opinion a fast moving smaller groups breaking LOC in 25-30 locations preceded by Air interdiction and followed by a bigger strike core.
Next, what will be the Indian SFC reaction say if say one or say 5-8 tactical nukes are fired on IA. you think there wont be any response?
Not at all, a good plan always has a contingency plan. If Plan A fails, there needs to be a Plan B. NASR is more of an insurance policy against an Indian invasion, thats about it. Looking at the balance of power, its roughly the same but there is always a good chance that the Indians can be the luckier/clever ones and manage to break through, something similar to the Wehrmacht breaking the French lines.
ok
But looking at the posture of the Indian Army, its acquisitions and the manoeuvres it has been performing, its quite evident that they want to achieve this capability.
It's their job, to convince everyone they can win , but in a war no one wins..
No doubt, and i pray to God this day never comes.
Its good to evaluate scenarios of battle in your mind and keep a strict vigil. I am actually very happy to see a stronger balanced Pak military. It ensures that there is no scenario where there is an actual war. I hope the same that we survive without fighting another war.
IMHO, this cold start business is sheer propaganda, India is no Germany and Pakistan is no Poland that one day we decide and jump in to pakistan . All these generals are very well aware of there abilities and want to fight limited actions under the shelter of Nuke umbrella.
In India Pakistan army is portrayed by lunatics as a entity whose main reason of survival is to hurt India, I have heard pakistani loons talking about hindus taking over Pakistan and all that usual BS. All this posturing is usually media driven because we are patriotic people and they play us on this war machinery card to sell their crap to us.
I dont think in last 20-30 years there has been any system developed or acquired by any one of these two countries thats a gamechanger
