GOI Ballistic Missile Threat Perception ---------------------------------------
¶11. (S) A.S. Sarma, DRDO/RCI Air Defense Project Director, gave a classified briefing on the GOI's perception of the Ballistic Missile Threat to India. The Indian delegation asked that information contained in the brief not be given wide dissemination within the USG, but controlled on a need-to-know basis. The brief included threat rings from existing ballistic threats in the region, as well as those under development.
The main thrust was that the ballistic threat to India was not from a single sector, but, in a worst-case scenario, could include coordinated, simultaneous attacks from 360 degrees with multiple objects. (Note: A hard copy of the briefing was not made available to the US delegation. End Note.)