Posted on 07/09/2006 8:50:52 AM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
China, Pak missiles challenge India --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
NDTV Correspondent
Sunday, July 9, 2006 (New Delhi):
India faces a missile threat from Pakistan on the West and China to the North East.
The Pakistani missile programme is a fascinating example of blatant missile proliferation from North Korea and China.
Pakistan's nuclear capable missiles have the names of Muslim leaders who invaded India but are in fact, little more than direct imports from Beijing and Pyong Yang.
The Shaheen Missile sometimes referred to as the Hatf 3 is in fact the Chinese M-11 missile with a range of 300 kilometres.
The Shaheen I is thought to be the Chinese M-9 with a range of 800 kms and the much more capable Shaheen II is the Chinese M-18 with a range of 2000 kms.
There is the Ghauri missile thought to be the Korean Nodong with a range of up to 1500 kms and then the Ghauri III possibly the Korean Taepodong, which has a range of 2,500 kms.
China far ahead
China is far ahead of India in its missile programmme and has the strategic reach to target any spot in India.
China's first operational ballistic missile was the DF-2 with a range of 1,250 kms and it had entered service way back in 1966.
China also operates cruise missiles and submarine launched ballistic missiles.
There are several other missiles including the technologically advanced df-11 or M-11, the df-15, or M9, the df-21 and the M-18.
Indian warheads
India's Agni series of missiles have ranges from 800 kms to 3500 kms and the Prithvi series from 150 to 600 kms.
The Dhanush ballistic missile is based on the Prithvi missile and can be fired from a warship.
ping!!
Build a positive relationship with India and allow Japan to have nukes. That could help keep China at bay.
It appears that although the coldwar is over the red threat is not.
The media seems happy to ignore sucess in the WOT in order to raise the spectre of Manbeardragonpig (Iran,Russia,China,NK)
this is getting cereal!
Seriously,the Communist are taking advantage of the WOT to reassert their place on the world stage
With all this talk about nukes flying here and there, our pillar of Presidential wisdom Ronald Reagan is looking more and more great as Star Wars technology is needed now more than ever.
What a Great man he was!
I am not surprised, pukistan survies on its hatred towards india and its kaffirs but I wonder whether those chinese crap will ever take off in time.
Do remember, the chinese are our friends. We allow them to take over all our manufacturing and send them all our money!
Pong!
Missile threat ping!
It's a good thing that India is included in PAC-3 defense systems. Maybe Indian design engineers will even help to add to their effectiveness.
you know the irony of the situation? pakistan was a part of India when these muslim invaders attacked us. so, the pakistanis are actually praising/ass-licking the very people who pillaged, raped and murdered their ancestors.
Atleast it will work not like those NKom Missiles that will probably blow up 45 seconds after launch.
It was disappointing to hear that the recent test of the nuclear capable missile failed, according to news source. I wonder if US could export some of the old ICBMs to India, as a phase before India to develop its own and get it on the factory line.
Yes & No!!The test is not considered an outright failure-problems developed which are to be & can be rectified.Developing upper end IRBMs with possible SLBM applications is no easy task.Most nations have problems with those.
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