^^ which new name you are talking about?
The new name of Cold Start.
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^^ which new name you are talking about?
Is Cold Start even an operational thing, i.e. can we act as quickly as cold start demands? Have we done any exercises to test that?
The topmost schematic shows the 1,200km-range subsonic Nirbhay nuclear-armed cruise missile, which will be available in both air-launched and submarine-launched versions. The ALCM version will be qualified for use by 20 specially customised Su-30MKIs, while the SLCM variant will go on board the S-2, S-3 and S-4 SSBNs.
The illustration below is that of a smaller, conventional warhead-armed air-launched subsonic variant of Nirbhay with a range of 750km, which will be qualified for launch from combat aircraft like the DARIN 3-standard Jaguar IS as well as Rafale M-MRCA.
Further details of this CALCM, now under development, can be found at:
Source: http://www.defence.pk/forums/indian...le-family-finally-revealed.html#ixzz2FrERMQzZ
^^ tactical nukes are very useful if you want to destroy incoming enemy formations with nuke and also want the radiation fallout to be limited
Indian National Security Advisor Shri Shivshankar Menon signaled a significant shift from "no first use" to "no first use against non-nuclear weapon states" in a speech on the occasion of Golden Jubilee celebrations of the National Defence College in New Delhi on October 21, 2010, a doctrine Menon said reflected India's "strategic culture, with its emphasis on minimal deterrence."[15][16]
Nirbhay ALCM annd SLCM (1200 KM Range Vesion) are intended to be armed with Tactical Nuke
Sub kiloton Nukes tested in 1998 make sense now
Can you tell me why we are not developing a GLCM and ShLCM version of nirbhay .???
There’s no land-based variant of n-armed Nirbhay, since any type of land-launched nuclear weapon is always vulnerable to first strikes. Then there’s the problem of deploying them by land to their pre-surveyed launch-sites during wartime, all of which makes such a weapon inflexible & vulnerable. The same goes for the conventionally armed Nirbhay as well & therefore its design (shown above) has wisely decided to do away with the solid-rocket booster (meaning no launches from land or from submarines/warships) & make use of only the sustainer turbofan for cruised flight.
-Pk sengupta
The reason is this :-
So ,There will be no conventionally armed Nirbhay GLCM too .
Nirbhay ALCM annd SLCM (1200 KM Range Vesion) are intended to be armed with Tactical Nuke
Sub kiloton Nukes tested in 1998 make sense now
Yes.
There will be no ship launched or land based versions but only ALCM and SLCM Nirbhay according to PK Sengupta
Can you tell us the weight of the sub-kiloton yield device tested in '98?