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SELF PRESERVATION IN A TOUGH NEIGHBORHOOD AND A BELLIGERENT NEIGHBOR BENT UPON HEGEMONY CONQUEST AND ASSIMILATION
The Pakistani missile program is a program of survival, self-preservation, dreams, defense and direct competition with India. In many ways, the program is ahead of its much larger neighbors program. Its deterrent value was proven, even in its early stages of development when it kept more than 250,000 soldiers on the Pakistani borders at bay.
President John F. Kennedy was once asked the difference between the Atlas space launch vehicle that put John Glenn into orbit and an Atlas missile aimed at the Soviet Union. He answered with a one-word pun: Attitude. The established path to a space launch capability for China, France, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States was to adapt a ballistic missile as a space launch vehicle.
The Short range Hataf series goes from Hataf 1 through Hataf 8 and includes air launched cruise missiles.
Some History....
Missile development and production in the world is truly a global enterprise. The first rockets on the planet were Chinese. The 1st tribal war in Europe also known as WW1 saw the introduction of bombs and rocket many laced with deadly chemical weapons. The death toll was over 15 million people killed. The 2nd tribal war in Europe was more devastating with over 50 million killed. German V-2 rockets rained down on London and destroyed most of it.
A must read...
After the end of the war, the German scientists who were more comfortable with America rushed to the American sectors and those German scientists who were more comfortable with the Russian or those who were trapped in the Russian sectors ended up in the USSR. The first American and USSR misiles after the war looked exactly like the German missiles. Some were simply painted over. Von Braun was the main scientist sequestered in Mobile Alabama who built the American missile and space program. The Apollo program was based on Von Brauns technology.
Chinese missile production capability is based on Russian and German technology also. North Korean technology is also based on German and Rusian technology. Indian technology is based on Russian missiles.
Cloaked in absolute secrecy, missile development in Pakistan began in the 80s. To diversify its technological base, Pakistan uses domestic competition between its local vedors to come up with the best product. Since the late 1980s and early 1990s, Pakistan has invested in both solid-motor and liquid-engine ballistic missile programs.
Pakistans reasons for investing in both solid- and liquid-propulsion technologies remain unclear. However, analysts speculate the rival programs could be the result of intra-institutional rivalry and one-upmanship between the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) and Khan Research Laboratories (KRL), which have historically feuded over control and credits for Pakistan nuclear weapons-related efforts. This rivalry may have also carried over to the development of nuclear delivery systems. Furthermore, the diversification effort could also be viewed as a proactive attempt on the part of Pakistans military to factor in possible bottlenecks or failure along one technological front, as well as an attempt to diversify suppliers in the face of U.S. efforts to restrict the international trade in weapons of mass destruction-capable ballistic and cruise missile technologies. Source: NTI
Pakistan began banking on missiles because of the US ambargo on planes. till the fleet of 500 JF-Thunder aircraft are ready, Pakistans nuclear deterrent will be the missle nuclear defense. Pakistan formally kicked off its medium-range missile programme in April 1998, with the first successful test flight of Ghauri I missile followed by similar tests the next years involving the nuclear capable Ghauri, Shaheen, Ghaznavi and Abdali missile systems.
The Pakistani missile program is a program of survival, self-preservation, dreams, defense and direct competition with India. In many ways, the program is ahead of its much larger neighbors program. Its deterrent value was proven, even in its early stages of development when it kept more than 250,000 soldiers on the Pakistani borders at bay.
President John F. Kennedy was once asked the difference between the Atlas space launch vehicle that put John Glenn into orbit and an Atlas missile aimed at the Soviet Union. He answered with a one-word pun: Attitude. The established path to a space launch capability for China, France, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States was to adapt a ballistic missile as a space launch vehicle.
The Short range Hataf series goes from Hataf 1 through Hataf 8 and includes air launched cruise missiles.
Some History....
Missile development and production in the world is truly a global enterprise. The first rockets on the planet were Chinese. The 1st tribal war in Europe also known as WW1 saw the introduction of bombs and rocket many laced with deadly chemical weapons. The death toll was over 15 million people killed. The 2nd tribal war in Europe was more devastating with over 50 million killed. German V-2 rockets rained down on London and destroyed most of it.
A must read...
After the end of the war, the German scientists who were more comfortable with America rushed to the American sectors and those German scientists who were more comfortable with the Russian or those who were trapped in the Russian sectors ended up in the USSR. The first American and USSR misiles after the war looked exactly like the German missiles. Some were simply painted over. Von Braun was the main scientist sequestered in Mobile Alabama who built the American missile and space program. The Apollo program was based on Von Brauns technology.
Chinese missile production capability is based on Russian and German technology also. North Korean technology is also based on German and Rusian technology. Indian technology is based on Russian missiles.
Cloaked in absolute secrecy, missile development in Pakistan began in the 80s. To diversify its technological base, Pakistan uses domestic competition between its local vedors to come up with the best product. Since the late 1980s and early 1990s, Pakistan has invested in both solid-motor and liquid-engine ballistic missile programs.
Pakistans reasons for investing in both solid- and liquid-propulsion technologies remain unclear. However, analysts speculate the rival programs could be the result of intra-institutional rivalry and one-upmanship between the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) and Khan Research Laboratories (KRL), which have historically feuded over control and credits for Pakistan nuclear weapons-related efforts. This rivalry may have also carried over to the development of nuclear delivery systems. Furthermore, the diversification effort could also be viewed as a proactive attempt on the part of Pakistans military to factor in possible bottlenecks or failure along one technological front, as well as an attempt to diversify suppliers in the face of U.S. efforts to restrict the international trade in weapons of mass destruction-capable ballistic and cruise missile technologies. Source: NTI
Pakistan began banking on missiles because of the US ambargo on planes. till the fleet of 500 JF-Thunder aircraft are ready, Pakistans nuclear deterrent will be the missle nuclear defense. Pakistan formally kicked off its medium-range missile programme in April 1998, with the first successful test flight of Ghauri I missile followed by similar tests the next years involving the nuclear capable Ghauri, Shaheen, Ghaznavi and Abdali missile systems.