India's nuclear arsenal failed by 'dud' missiles

[Parul]

According to One Thread Our Nukes are DUD & We Lag behind in Missiles Race...Then why some people don't dare to accomplish there motives...????? Is Dud Stopping them???

 

[Ammyy]

DRDO invents toys Missiles For indian military to play with unreliable and dud!

That's the difference ... DRDO invented these missiles that's why few time these missiles failed but some () got it with paint job

 

[Contract Killer]

DRDO invents toys Missiles For indian military to play with unreliable and dud!

O Bhai..... To kisne roka hai trial lene se....... Aajao.... lelo.

Dud hoga to tumhari Balle Balle. Dud nahi hoga to Gile Gile.

 

[asad71]

The most authoritative non-governmental assessment of world nuclear forces has revealed that India's nuclear capabilities are seriously lagging behind those of its putative adversaries, Pakistan and China.
The evaluation by Hans M. Kristensen and Robert S. Norris in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists called 'Indian nuclear forces, 2012', reveals that for New Delhi, the principal means of weapons delivery remains fixed-wing aircraft like the Mirage-2000 and the Jaguar.
Unlike Pakistan and China which have substantial deployed missile arsenals, India's missile force is lagging, despite the test-launch of the Agni V in 2012.

According to him, 'The Agni I is operational and tested, and Agni II and III are almost there and all three can be used if necessary.' According to him, the lack of authoritative information on India's capability 'is part of our posture of ambiguity' on matters nuclear. But Admiral Arun Prakash, former navy chief and chairman Chiefs of Staff Committee, has another view.
'We have to rely on the word of our DRDO/DAE scientists as far as performance, reliability, accuracy and yield of missiles and nuclear warheads are concerned. Unfortunately, hyperbolic claims coupled with dissonance within the ranks of our scientists have eroded their credibility,' he said.
As of now, according to the Bulletin, 'we estimate that India has produced 80-100 nuclear warheads'. In the case of Pakistan, whose evaluation was done in 2011, the Bulletin analysis has said that 'it has the world's fastest-growing nuclear stockpile', estimating that Pakistan 'has 90-110 nuclear weapons'.
The Pakistani arsenal, too, consists of mainly aircraft-dropped bombs, but with its Chinese-supplied missiles, it has a deployed arsenal of missiles like the Ghaznavi, Shaheen I and Ghauri and is developing longer-range missiles. Significantly, Pakistan's India specific arsenal comprises of the Nasr short-range (70 km) ballistic missile, which can use nuclear weapons to take out troop formations and Pakistan is in the advanced stage of developing two cruise missiles - the Babur and the Raad.

If this is dismaying for New Delhi, the comparison with China is positively alarming. Beijing has an arsenal of 240 or so warheads and it is adding to this number, though not at the pace Pakistan is.
Its nuclear weapons are primarily delivered through a mature missile arsenal with ranges from 2,000-11,000 km. A large number of Chinese missiles, including their cruise missiles, are primarily for use in nonnuclear conventional battle role. Raghavan acknowledges that 'China is a different kettle of fish', but he says even so, with the Agni V test, 'India's progress has been commendable'.
But the really big difference between India and China arises from the fact that India's thermonuclear weapon capability is suspect.
A Mail Today report (August 27, 2009) had cited K. Santhanam, the DRDO scientist who ran the country's nuclear programme at the time of the Pokhran tests, to say that the single thermonuclear test carried out at the time was a 'fizzle'. Responsibility for this state of affairs rests with the government.
According to Admiral Prakash, 'India's National Command Authority (NCA) not only meets infrequently, but is loath to take decisions when it does. This has an adverse impact on decision-making, financial approvals and production-rate of missiles/warheads'.
He says that the management of our deterrent 'by a sub-optimal troika consisting of scientists (in the driving seat), bureaucrats and soldiers' is also a debilitating factor.



India's nuclear arsenal failed by 'dud' missiles | Mail Online

Dhol ka Pol for the Super Power Republic of India.

 

[DARIUS]

India is a sitting duck for Babur

Umm. . . . Just out of curiosity!Which chini missile exactly had been renamed and re-Painted as Babur!!!!????

 

[Ammyy]

Dhol ka Pol for the Super Power Republic of India.

Dnt worry for BD waste of Agni ( you know what I mean) is more then enough

 

[EzioAltaïr]

DRDO invents toys Missiles For indian military to play with unreliable and dud!

Yeah sure they do.

 

[Contract Killer]

Dhol ka Pol for the Super Power Republic of India.

For you.... BSF is suffecient.

Nothing more needed.

 

[asad71]

" the lack of authoritative information on India's capability 'is part of our posture of ambiguity' on matters nuclear
"

Oyee hoee hoee! Everybody hide.

 

[EzioAltaïr]

For you.... BSF is suffecient.

Nothing more needed.

I think BSF is too much for 'em. Bengal Police should do.

 

[Jung]

This type of articles are most welcome...it has only made india to increase its defence budget more and more...

 

[EzioAltaïr]

Oyee hoee hoee! Everybody hide.

Nah, you needn't hide. This is a race between India and China, not between India and China's pet.

This type of articles are most welcome...it has only made india to increase its defence budget more and more...

Exactly.

Make the army think it's weak, it will grow stronger than it ever was. Far better than self-glorification which can only cause the army to reach a standstill in develpment.

 

[asad71]

For you.... BSF is suffecient.

Nothing more needed.

Yep, you are right. Just like in Padua you sent an infantry bn to attack the village dressed in BSF uniform. And remember the thrashing / lynching you got at the hands of our villagers armed with bamboos and household implements? Believe you guys are itching for another lynching parade.

 

[DARIUS]

The most authoritative non-governmental assessment of world nuclear forces has revealed that India's nuclear capabilities are seriously lagging behind those of its putative adversaries, Pakistan and China.
The evaluation by Hans M. Kristensen and Robert S. Norris in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists called 'Indian nuclear forces, 2012', reveals that for New Delhi, the principal means of weapons delivery remains fixed-wing aircraft like the Mirage-2000 and the Jaguar.
Unlike Pakistan and China which have substantial deployed missile arsenals, India's missile force is lagging, despite the test-launch of the Agni V in 2012.

According to him, 'The Agni I is operational and tested, and Agni II and III are almost there and all three can be used if necessary.' According to him, the lack of authoritative information on India's capability 'is part of our posture of ambiguity' on matters nuclear. But Admiral Arun Prakash, former navy chief and chairman Chiefs of Staff Committee, has another view.
'We have to rely on the word of our DRDO/DAE scientists as far as performance, reliability, accuracy and yield of missiles and nuclear warheads are concerned. Unfortunately, hyperbolic claims coupled with dissonance within the ranks of our scientists have eroded their credibility,' he said.
As of now, according to the Bulletin, 'we estimate that India has produced 80-100 nuclear warheads'. In the case of Pakistan, whose evaluation was done in 2011, the Bulletin analysis has said that 'it has the world's fastest-growing nuclear stockpile', estimating that Pakistan 'has 90-110 nuclear weapons'.
The Pakistani arsenal, too, consists of mainly aircraft-dropped bombs, but with its Chinese-supplied missiles, it has a deployed arsenal of missiles like the Ghaznavi, Shaheen I and Ghauri and is developing longer-range missiles. Significantly, Pakistan's India specific arsenal comprises of the Nasr short-range (70 km) ballistic missile, which can use nuclear weapons to take out troop formations and Pakistan is in the advanced stage of developing two cruise missiles - the Babur and the Raad.

If this is dismaying for New Delhi, the comparison with China is positively alarming. Beijing has an arsenal of 240 or so warheads and it is adding to this number, though not at the pace Pakistan is.
Its nuclear weapons are primarily delivered through a mature missile arsenal with ranges from 2,000-11,000 km. A large number of Chinese missiles, including their cruise missiles, are primarily for use in nonnuclear conventional battle role. Raghavan acknowledges that 'China is a different kettle of fish', but he says even so, with the Agni V test, 'India's progress has been commendable'.
But the really big difference between India and China arises from the fact that India's thermonuclear weapon capability is suspect.
A Mail Today report (August 27, 2009) had cited K. Santhanam, the DRDO scientist who ran the country's nuclear programme at the time of the Pokhran tests, to say that the single thermonuclear test carried out at the time was a 'fizzle'. Responsibility for this state of affairs rests with the government.
According to Admiral Prakash, 'India's National Command Authority (NCA) not only meets infrequently, but is loath to take decisions when it does. This has an adverse impact on decision-making, financial approvals and production-rate of missiles/warheads'.
He says that the management of our deterrent 'by a sub-optimal troika consisting of scientists (in the driving seat), bureaucrats and soldiers' is also a debilitating factor.



India's nuclear arsenal failed by 'dud' missiles | Mail Online

I do not get this!!This article is most probably from 2007-08.What is it's relevance today and that too after Agni-V has been successfully tested??And these so called western experts and commentators are so knowledgeable about India that they along with their spy sats could not even stop India from conducting the Pokhran tests!!
This part although is very true-

The Pakistani arsenal, too, consists of mainly aircraft-dropped bombs, but with its Chinese-supplied missiles, it has a deployed arsenal of missiles like the Ghaznavi, Shaheen I and Ghauri and is developing longer-range missiles.

Indias Nuke program is so secretive that even the DRDO was not taken into confidence fully during operation smiling Buddha!!And here we have Bangladeshis commenting on India's capability!!

 

[RiazHaq]

Best thing about this lame article is that all Pak missiles which they proudly proclaim are self made are infact Chinese supplied.
The article may have called Indian missile dud but these guys have atleast not called them Russian supplied.

Indian nukes and missiles are no more indigenous than Pak nukes and missiles missiles.

APJ Abul Kalam is credited with designing India's first satellite launcher SLV3. Its design is virtually identical to the American Scout rocket used in the 1960s. According to the details published in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Abul Kalam spent four months in training in the United States in 1963-1964. He visited NASA's Langley Research Center in Virginia, where the U.S. Scout rocket was conceived, and the Wallops Island Flight Center on the Virginia coast, where the Scout was being flown. Soon after Abul Kalam's visit, India requested and received detailed technical reports on the Scout's design, which was unclassified.



US Scout and India's SLV3 are both 23 meters long, use four similar solid-fuel stages and "open loop" guidance, and lift a 40-kilogram payload into low earth orbit. The SLV's 30-foot first stage later became the first stage of the Agni.

The United States was followed by others. Between 1963 and 1975, more than 350 U.S., French, Soviet, and British sounding rockets were launched from India's Thumba Range, which the United States helped design. Thumba's first group of Indian engineers had learned rocket launching and range operation in the United States.

India's other missile, the "Prithvi" (earth), which uses a liquid-propelled motor to carry a one-ton payload 150 miles, resembles the widely sold Soviet Scud-B. Indian sources say that the Agni's second stage is a shortened version of the Prithvi, according to Gary Milhollin of the Wisconsin Project.

India's nuclear program would not have advanced without a lot of help from Canadians that resulted in Indian copies of Canadian reactors to produce plutonium for its nuclear bombs.

India conducted its first atomic bomb test in 1974. Indians used 40 MW Canadian Cirus reactor and U.S. heavy water both imported under guarantees of peaceful use and used them openly to make plutonium for its 1974 nuclear blast.

In 1972, Canadian-built 100 MWe Rajasthan-1 nuclear power reactor became operational, serving as the model for later unsafeguarded reactors. Another Rajasthan unit started operating in 1980 and two units in 2000. In 1983, India's 170 MW Madras-1, a copy of Canadian Rajhastan-1 reactor, became operational. A second Madras unit followed in 1985. According to the Risk Report Volume 11 Number 6 (November-December 2005), the heavy water and other advanced materials and equipment for these plants were smuggled to India from a number of countries, including the USSR, China and Norway, according to The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. Some of the firms, such as West German firm Degussa, were caught and fined by the United States for re-exporting to India 95 kg of U.S.-origin beryllium, usable as a neutron reflector in fission bombs.

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