The Deterrent
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I didn't suggest that only now Pakistan has made a move on miniature warheads (with Shaheen-3 reference). Of course the cruise missiles and Nasr already have them, I was referring to MRBMs (Ghauri/Shaheen-II having larger U-235 warheads). It may very well be possible that we are converging all our under-development strategic assets to a single device type, deploy-able on Babur/Ra'ad/Shaheen-IA/Shaheen-III/MIRVed missile. Nasr must have a much smaller Pu-only design.But you do realize that it's impossible to make TNW without Plutonium and tritium and elaborate design of boosted fission? As pure uranium implosion type design us too cumbersome to fit on Nasr?
So Pakistan has an elaborate enough design of nukes to be able to fit in a missiles small as Nasr or Babur,which too has small payload capacity compared to a ballistic missile.
So I cannot accept the assumption that only now with shaheen 3 , Pakistan has worked for making smaller warheads with same yield as of larger less elabotate designs.
The friction is much greater, it slows the RVs down. Do read up on that, I did a while ago.About RV slowing down after reentry, again i am not too sure,as that should depend on angle of attack and RV design. Llogically speaking, gravity is still pulling the RV and trying to accelerate it,and friction of atmosphere cancelling it , should keep RV speed constant until impact.
But i am not too sure right now,will do some calculations ti find out,when i get time.