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India is building up considerable on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands; about 2000 nautical miles (3750 km) from the northern most missile bases of Pakistan. That should be the extend of the missiles Pakistan needs, because its mission has always been to maintain credible minimum deterrence against only India. Hypotheticals about other countries is counter productive, because Pakistan has no intention to use its military against them.
I hope this new missile has a hypersonic glider re-entry warhead, to ensure the capability to penetrate enemy ABM systems. In fact if Pakistan is moving towards a more robust missile force it should study the new 2000 nautical mile range US IRBM built after exiting the INF treaty; Two stage with fins on each stage (larger fins one first stage, small on second stage, and medium fins on RV stage), using a castor 4a grain to burn faster at the start, but the casing and nozzle of a castor 4b. Second stage is a “payload support module with small shrouded fins”; allows extreme maneuvers (RV can make a U-turn). The capabilities are outlined in the following paper originally out of South Korea:
“Adaptive Missile Flight Control for Complex Aerodynamic Flight Control”
A lot of good information from the following podcast
If Pakistan can MIRV with Hypersonic Glider Re-entry Vehicles and put lots of decoys, it would really be a game changer.
Also; what a Castor 4B based missile would look like (just for reference)
space.skyrocket.de
here is a picture of the actual missile
A more clear version of approximately what it looks like:
Pakistan shouldn’t focus on building an ICBM (as it sends the wrong signals), but something like the “Castor IRBM” and possibly a 2500-3000 km SLBM to cover all of India from the North Arabian Sea and Western Indian Ocean, and a very quiet Submarine to carry it in, consider the proliferation of unmanned undersea gliders with Advanced Sonars as well as the extensive us of Sonar Nets.
I hope this new missile has a hypersonic glider re-entry warhead, to ensure the capability to penetrate enemy ABM systems. In fact if Pakistan is moving towards a more robust missile force it should study the new 2000 nautical mile range US IRBM built after exiting the INF treaty; Two stage with fins on each stage (larger fins one first stage, small on second stage, and medium fins on RV stage), using a castor 4a grain to burn faster at the start, but the casing and nozzle of a castor 4b. Second stage is a “payload support module with small shrouded fins”; allows extreme maneuvers (RV can make a U-turn). The capabilities are outlined in the following paper originally out of South Korea:
“Adaptive Missile Flight Control for Complex Aerodynamic Flight Control”
A lot of good information from the following podcast
https://www.armscontrolwonk.com/archive/1210721/fancy-***-swerve/
If Pakistan can MIRV with Hypersonic Glider Re-entry Vehicles and put lots of decoys, it would really be a game changer.
Also; what a Castor 4B based missile would look like (just for reference)
Castor-4B
Gunter's Space Page - Information on Launch vehicles, Satellites, Space Shuttle and Astronautics
here is a picture of the actual missile
A more clear version of approximately what it looks like:
Pakistan shouldn’t focus on building an ICBM (as it sends the wrong signals), but something like the “Castor IRBM” and possibly a 2500-3000 km SLBM to cover all of India from the North Arabian Sea and Western Indian Ocean, and a very quiet Submarine to carry it in, consider the proliferation of unmanned undersea gliders with Advanced Sonars as well as the extensive us of Sonar Nets.
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