Should Pakistan Navy acquire carrier kill missile

[deltacamelately]

Sir,

Emphasizing on your post and bold parts.......I would like to put forward a few points on being 100% sure about the launch being a Nuclear one......one is the early detection or boost phase detection which provide a little more time on decision making......second is that there are technologies that can detect the amount radiation being emitted from a warhead and determine its type using radiation detectors in low orbit satellites.......how ever it would be absurd to say that any nation other than U.S.A. has such technologies but.....it wouldn't be long that even countries like India would be using them to validate an early launch.......Just in case......such methods of tracking a nuclear weaponry was used by Americans during early 90s when there was a risk of......mini nukes designed to fit in a small container by KGB......falling into unlawful hands/terrorists.

Again relating to the validity/purpose of a DF-21D in modern day battlefield brings a question.......why would China risk launching a BM which can be seen as a threat to NATO bases and deployment in the region and risk out a nuclear war.....with them......if they could probably shoo away a CVBG in Russian style by making their subs surface in front of American eyes and having a small meeting with their commander with their destroyers in vicinity.

I agree with you on the point that ONE GOES ALL GOES........ that's what makes tactical nukes like DF-21D and Naser utter BS.......when there are far cheaper and less risky weapon systems available.

Thanks,
DARKY

DARKY,

I must admit, you have hit the nail on the head.
The world experimented with strategic nukes/thermo nukes, as well as tactical nukes along with thermobaric nukes and guess what, the rational few realised that there was no point in attacking an advancing column or a small counter force target with tactical nukes, when the job could be done equally well using conventional munition, without climbing the escalation ladder and minus the political stigma. At the same time they realised that a thermobaric weapon dropped on the enemy would invite the same response as that of a megatone nuke or a thermonuclear weapon, irrespective of the device being conventional, so why develope the bl00dy thing at the first place?